On 25 February 2025, IOCB Prague hosted the annual Tony Holý Lecture, honoring the legacy of its distinguished scientist Prof. Antonín Holý. This year’s distinguished speaker was Professor Morten Peter Meldal from the University of…

A new building has gone up on the IOCB campus that will serve as headquarters for the cryogenic electron microscopy laboratory of Dr. Tomáš Kouba. Building K will house two state-of-the-art instruments, a 300 kV Krios G4 cryogenic…

Richard Husmann, gunner of the 311th (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron, journalist and writer, lived a life that even Hollywood action script writers could feel proud to conjure up. He has recounted his experiences from the Second World War…

IOCB Prague officially opened its new branch in Boston, USA on October 18, 2024. The move puts the institute in proximity to world-leading scientific institutions, such as Harvard University, MIT, and Boston Medical Center. As the first…

In the third week of September, the International Advisory Board convened at IOCB Prague to evaluate some of the scientific groups. All junior teams must eventually undergo this regular evaluation, and the results serve as a guide for the…

Discoveries from IOCB Prague now have a greater chance of being put into practice starting today, and patients with previously untreatable diseases have stronger hopes of receiving effective therapy. A unique translational center…

The recipients of the 2024 Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship, which provides financial support to young scientists caring for a preschool-aged child, have been chosen. IOCB Tech Foundation has announced the names of the ten new…

IOCB Prague celebrated 70 years of its existence with a jubilee symposium, a one-day lecture festival covering some of the most historically significant research areas of IOCB and combining them with current cutting-edge science carried…

On 17 October 2022, the director of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń, and the director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of…

Today we commonly encounter contactless RFID chips in a number of products, but can similar technology be implemented at the molecular level? The answer is yes. The principle of molecular encoding conceived by Miloslav Polášek and his team…