Grantnews #64

Grant Office FM MU  |  18 Nov 2025, 12:31  |  Čeština

GRANTNEWS

Dear colleagues,

We bring you another edition of Grantnews with updates from the world of grants and current funding opportunities. If anything catches your interest and you need more detailed information, feel free to contact us.
The Grant Office team is here for you.

AZV

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. 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).

A total of CZK 140 million will be directed towards health research in the coming years.

Principal Investigators from the Faculty of Medicine

  • Michelle Geryk (junior): 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 (junior): 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 (junior): 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 (junior): Deciphering Vitrification-Induced Alterations in Oocyte Structure and Function: From Cellular to Clinical Implications
  • Jan Raška (junior): 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 (junior): Advancing Vaccine Safety Through Clinically-Oriented Classification of Adverse Events & Behavioural Analysis of Reporting Practices

Co-investigators from the Faculty of Medicine

  • Sabina Ševčíková: Proteomic Liquid Biopsy Approach for Identification of Functional High-risk Multiple Myeloma
  • Dáša Bohačiaková: Mitophagy Impairment in Alzheimer's disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Applications
  • Martin Knoz (junior): Antimicrobial Foams Based on Modified Polysaccharides for Accelerated Hemostasis: In Vivo Evaluation in a Rabbit Model Simulating Arterial Bleeding
  • Jaroslav Štěrba: Drug Repurposing for the Therapy of MYC-driven Pediatric Tumors via Mitochondrial Synthetic Lethality
  • Petra Pokorná (junior): Beyond the Exome: Integrating Precision Genomics and Functional Validation in Exome-Negative Undiagnosed Pediatric Patients

 

Congratulations to all successful applicants!

ORCID

ORCID

From October 1, Masaryk University Instruction 1/2025 requires employees who publish their work and students of doctoral degree programmes to establish and use the digital personal identifier ORCID.
Register your ORCID in the IS MU application, where you can also grant consent to your profile management. You can find the exact procedure in the detailed Guide to Unique personal identifier.
At the Faculty of Medicine, you can contact Open Science methodologist Tereza Miškechová.

The documents are currently only available in Czech language, we will inform you when the English version is available.

Grants Week

Join November Grants Week 2025

Want to find out everything you need to know about research funding? Join MUNI Grants Week 2025, which will take place from 25–27 November 2025 at Komenského nám. 2, Roger Scruton Hall, Brno.

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We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable November and look forward to our further collaboration 🌞
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