Profesor Holý celebrated his 75th birthday in the new laboratories
2 Sep 2011
On Thursday, 1 September 2011 at 10 A.M., the reconstructed building of biochemistry of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, dedicated to Prof. Antonín Holý, who celebrated his birthday that day, had its grand opening. The Jubilee celebrant attended the opening of the peak laboratories in person despite a serious illness. President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR Prof. Jiří Drahoš wished Prof. Holý particularly plenty of good health and emphasised that ‘besides the basic conditions like genius, intuition and luck, exceptional results of scientific work are always based on systematic and long-term basic research’.
Astronaut Andrew Feustel in the Czech Republic
10 Aug 2011
Czech researcher Professor Blanka Říhová has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011
4 Mar 2011
Professor Blanka Říhová from Czech Academy of Sciences has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011 in lifetime achievement category. Blanka Říhová, currently Head of Department of Immunology and Gnotobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000 – 2007, Director of the Institute of Microbiology in Prague, Czech Republic), and her team have, in close collaboration with the team of professor Karel Ulbrich, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic strived to develop a more targeted treatment with positive results.
IOCHB at EXPO 2010
26 Oct 2010
An exposition of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR at the international fair EXPO 2010 belongs, without a doubt, to the biggest lures of the event in Shanghai. It presents an international success of prof. Holý's team in a treatment of AIDS. The growing interest of visitors in the exposition led to an organization of a special scientific seminar which will take place on 23.9. 2010 in the Expo forum and which will be presenting Czech science, especially a research at the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry.
Membrane lipids and cytoskeleton dynamics are intimately interconnected in plant cells
21 May 2010
Membrane lipids and cytoskeleton dynamics are intimately interconnected in the eukaryotic cell, but only recently have the molecular mechanisms operating at this interface in plant cells been addressed experimentally.
XXXVI. Academy Assembly
15 Apr 2010
The Academy Assembly, the highest body of the ASCR responsible for the topmost priority decisions related to the ASCR, held its XXXVI Meeting in the Municipal House in Vinohrady on April 22, 2010. Professor Drahoš, in his presidential remarks to the assembly, summed up his views:
