The EU has presented its first Health Plan for Cardiovascular Health
In December 2025, the European Commission published the first-ever EU cardiovascular health plan, the Safe Hearts Plan. Doctors and professional associations have welcomed it.
AZV will support 17 projects from our faculty in 2026
In the 2026 call of the Czech Health Research Council (AZV), 17 projects involving researchers from our faculty were successful. A total of CZK 140 million will be directed towards health research in the coming years. Nearly half of the supported projects are led by researchers in the junior stage of their careers.
The Faculty of Medicine serves as the main investigator in 12 of them (including 6 junior-led projects) and as a co-investigator in 5 (including 2 junior-led projects).
Supported projects – Principal Investigators from the Faculty of Medicine
- Michelle Geryk: Desmin As a Window into Cardiovascular Disease
- Lenka Bešše: Investigation of proteasome inhibition combined with tyrosine kinase inhibition as a therapeutic option for triple-negative breast cancer
- Jaromír Gumulec: Interplay of Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Metabolic Reprogramming: A Biophysical Reflection of EMT in Vimentin-Actin Networks in Head and Neck Cancer as a Base for Risk Stratification
- Andrej Bešše: CRISPR Activation Screening to Identify Surface Proteins Modulating Cytotoxic T Cell Responses in Multiple Myeloma
- Radim Jančálek: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of parecoxib in hospitalized patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage
- David Šmajs: Emerging antibiotic resistance in Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum: mapping of antibiotic resistance among contemporary syphilis strains
- Matěj Bezdíček: Advancing Candida and Emerging Yeast Pathogens Surveillance: Long-Read Genomics for Resistance and Epidemiology
- Břetislav Lipový: Regenerative Strategies Promoting Improvement and REstoration of the Pulmonary Functions
- Volodymyr Porokh: Deciphering Vitrification-Induced Alterations in Oocyte Structure and Function: From Cellular to Clinical Implications
- Jan Raška: Minireceptor Gene Therapy for Preventing Neurodegeneration in SORLA-Associated Alzheimer’s Disease
- Andrea Pokorná: Optimization of Differential Diagnosis and Management of Selected Skin Lesions in the Context of Increasing the Competence of Non-medical Healthcare Professionals
- Abanoub Riad: Advancing Vaccine Safety Through Clinically-Oriented Classification of Adverse Events & Behavioural Analysis of Reporting Practices
Researchers Sabina Ševčíková, Dáša Bohačiaková, Martin Knoz, Jaroslav Štěrba, and Petra Pokorná will participate as co-investigators in projects led by other institutions.
In the previous call, eight projects were supported with our faculty as the main investigator and seven as co-investigator. The faculty has thus recorded another year-on-year increase in success.
Congratulations to all successful applicants!
