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On September 11, representatives of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), and Comenius University met with Professor Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council (ERC), at the Complexity Science Hub research institute in Vienna. The aim of the meeting was to discuss ways…
The Biomedical Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, invites you to a lecture by Amina Qutub from the University of Texas in the USA, a world-renowned researcher in the field of artificial intelligence who develops AI technologies to improve human health. The lecture…
On 18 September 2025, the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava, and the University Hospital Bratislava jointly introduced a new Laboratory for Comprehensive Brain and Auditory Research, located at BMC SAS. Its goal is to improve understanding of changes in brain…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) cordially invites you to a lecture by the world-renowned immunologist Dr. Evgeniy Eruslanov from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. The lecture, entitled “The Dual Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Modulating Anti-Tumor Immune Responses”, will take place on September 18, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. in the Dionýz Blaškovič Lecture…
On July 30, 2025, the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) completed a quantitative analysis of residual DNA and other substances in selected batches of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The results of the analysis confirm that the amount of residual DNA in vaccines is below the specified safety limit and…
The NRC for Rickettsioses at the Regional Public Health Authority RÚVZ Banská Bystrica, operating upon agreement at the Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, confirms an ongoing outbreak of Q fever in the village of Ráztočno. Q fever is a zoonotic infection caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. The bacterium…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences have published research on the largest herpes virus in a prestigious scientific journal. The scientists explain the molecular mechanisms of the immune response triggered by human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). The paper was published in the…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with regional public health authorities, has launched the second round of nationwide monitoring of mosquito-borne viruses, namely West Nile virus and Usutu virus in 36 Slovak localities, introducing several innovations. BMC SAS scientists have managed to improve the methods so that…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) will host top experts working on a project dedicated to zoonotic infectious diseases from May 21 to 24, 2025. Slovakia is one of only two European countries involved in the international ZOE project where field research is being conducted. The trapping of rodents,…
The Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Research Center of the SAS (BMC SAS), the Institute of Zoology of the SAS, the Institute of Parasitology of the SAS, the Slovak Parasitological Society at the SAS, and Medirex organized the seventh edition of the international conference Labudove dni (Labuda Days). It was held from 16 to…