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29. September 2025

Interview with Mark Terentyak: What is it like to represent our Institute at the FameLab Competition?

Our doctoral student, Mark Terentyak from the Research Group of Multiphase Reactors, has advanced to the national round of the FameLab 2025 competition, which is looking for the best science communicators. His three-minute presentation on using bubbles to deliver oxygen to cells in biotechnology research captivated the jury and the audience. In an …

8. August 2025

Applied Research

Highly Selective Galectin-1 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

We have received the project “Highly selective galectin-1 inhibitors for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer” in the PRAK Program, which is an internal program of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), from which funding can be obtained for the development of the application potential of research results. Researchers have up to…

1. July 2025

Applied Research

Fast Hydrogen Electrolyzer can Revolutionize Energy Stability

Scientists from the Department of Materials Chemistry have been awarded the THETA 2 project “Sustainable technologies for synthetic fuel production and energy storage” (2025-2029) by the Technology Agency of the CR. The project aims to develop innovative technologies for efficiently converting CO₂ into synthetic fuels and energy stora…

Czech scientists from the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS detected forest fires in Canada

17. June 2025

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Czech scientists from the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS detected forest fires in Canada

Scientists from the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who are part of the large research infrastructure ACTRIS – CZ, detected a sharp increase in air pollutants at several monitoring stations. The phenomenon was observed in the Czech Republic on June 9 and 10, 2025. Backward trajectory calculations of ai…

23. May 2025

Applied Research

METRO Experiment

The METRO experiment, designed by scientists from the Research Group of Algal and Microbial Biotechnology at the ICPF of the CAS, in collaboration with experts from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT), has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republ…

14. March 2025

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Evaluation of the Strategy AV21 Research Program

Dr. Olga Šolcová has been involved in the research program of the Strategy AV21 Foods for the future in the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Research Group. According to the evaluation of the final report, the research program was completed excellently in all parts. The research results were patented, applied in the form of utility models,&he…