Inter-Excellence grants

INTER-ACTION – Bilateral cooperation

Utilizing CD64-specific synthetic antibody mimetics for cancer immunotherapy and immunomodulation. Project number LUAIZ24161 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic) 2024–2027 (Jan Konvalinka together with Jakub Abramson, Weizmann Institute of Science)

Activation of bio-abundant organic feedstocks: acridinia as electrorecyclable, multifunctional catalysts with unique organocatalytic umpolung reactivity. Project number LUABA24172 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic) 2024–2026 (Tomáš Slanina together with Joshua Barham, Universitaet Regensburg)

Biocatalysis inspired by reactive intermediates in copper oxidases and oxygenases: an interplay between theory and experiment. Project number LUAUS24230 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic) 2024–2027 (Lubomír Rulíšek together with Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University)
Nonplanar and chiral nanocarbons: their synthesis, properties and applications. Project number 24212 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic) 2024–2027 (Ivo Starý together with Semin Lee, Louisiana State University)

Development of Non-Opioid Calcium Antagonists for Pain Treatment. Project number: LUAUS23322 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2023–2026 (Emanuela Jahn together with New York University)
Multifunctional Molecular Machines. Project number: LUAUS23144 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2023–2027 (Jiří Kaleta together with Ohio University)
Development of new chemotherapeutics against human and veterinary parasitic infections. Project number: LUAUS23050 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2023–2027 (Michael Mareš together with University of California)

Electron and proton transfer in ionized DNA fragments. Project number: LTAUSA19094 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Aleš Marek)
When Cucurbit[n]urils Met Molecular Rods: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Supramolecular Machines in the Solid State. Project number: LTAUSA19120 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Jiří Kaleta)
Mono- and binuclear Fe, Cu active sites in biological systems: interplay between theory and experiment. Project number: LTAUSA19148 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Lubomír Rulíšek)
Novel strategies for designing antiparasitic molecules as human and veterinary drugs. Project number: LTAUSA19109 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Michael Mareš)

Photoswitchable and Magnetic Photoswitchable Ionic Liquids: Theory and Experiments. Project number: LTAIN19166 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Tomáš Slanina)
Visualizing GPCR-G-protein-β-arrestin supercomplexes in living cells using two-photon polarization microscopy. Project number: LTAIN19167 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2022 (Josef Lazar)

Embedding Antiviral Nanoparticles in Water and/or Air for Cleaning the Environment. Project number: LTAIZ19017 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Jan Weber)

Synthesis and reactivity of N-fluoroalkylated compounds. Project number: LTAUSA18037 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Petr Beier)
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of potential modulators of human adenylate cyclases. Project number: 18086 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Zlatko Janeba)
Poly-β-malic acid and its role as a possible primitive predecessor of nucleic acids. Project number: LTAUSA18085 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Jakub Kaminský)
Tumor targeted prodrugs of glutamine anatagonists. Project number: LTAUSA18166 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Pavel Majer)
Search for novel nucleoside analogs as antivirals against medically important flaviviruses. Project number: LTAUSA18018 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2019–2022 (Radim Nencka)

Targeting cathepsin-mediated proteolysis for proteostasis control, Project number: LUC23037 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2023–2025 (Martin Horn)
The role of proteases and pseudoproteases in membrane protein biogenesis and quality control, Project number: LUC23180 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2023–2025 (Kvido Stříšovský)
Impact of Photoinduced Charge Migration on Photochemistry of Radicals and Switches. Project number: LTC20076 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2023 (Tomáš Slanina)
Role of adhesion-GPCRs during viral infection of mammalian cells. Project number: LTC20065 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2020–2023 (Jan Weber)
Development of chiral microscopy and chemical imaging for biomolecular studies. Project number: LTC17012 (MŠMT – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic), 2017–2020 (Petr Bouř)