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An innovative online coaching programme for people with obesity called 14weeks, created by Dr Jozef Ukropec and Professor Barbara Ukropcová from the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with partners from the startup Zhiva and researchers from KInIT, attracted hundreds of candidates from all over Slovakia in the…
REACH project on ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas (PDAC), one of the deadliest forms of cancer, kicked off these months. The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (BMC SAS) is one of the investigators of the project, which has received funding under the transnational call TRANSCAN 3 2023 “Translational…
In early June 2025, Bratislava became the venue of the 53rd International Scientific Conference of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS), the leading scientific event in the field of genetic toxicology, environmental mutagenesis and genomics. The event took place from 2 to 5 June at the Park Inn Hotel and for the first…
An innovative approach to the analysis of complex biomolecules, which opens a new direction in the research of drugs that protect against sudden cardiac death, has been published these days by researchers from the Department of Cellular Cardiology of the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), led by Alexandra Zahradnikova,…
Scientists from eleven countries discussed at the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) at a meeting within the framework of the international ZOE project on zoonotic infectious diseases. From 21 to 24 May, they reviewed the first sub-results, debated the challenges and also visited the Danube flood plains and the…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with the State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC), has accepted a mandate from the Slovak Minister of Health, Kamil Šaško, to analyze selected retained batches of COVID-19 vaccines. The analysis will be conducted in close collaboration between SAS and SIDC. Both…
Alliance4Life (A4L), an international community that aims to increase the competitiveness and innovativeness of health research in our region and of which the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is a member, published a position paper on the 10th Research Framework Programme (FP10). Here is the introduction: Achievements and Progress of the…
The European Virus Archive (EVA), of which the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) is a founding member, and which aims to facilitate pandemic preparedness, improve pandemic management and promote collaboration in virological research, has been granted official status as an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law. The legal status…
On February 18-19, 2025, the Alliance4Life (A4L) community, which aims to increase the competitiveness and innovativeness of health research in our region and of which the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is a member, gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The inspiring two-day meeting set the direction for the next phase of the…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) hosted an information seminar on 17 February 2025 on the new BMC2ERC platform, which we have set up to increase the number, quality and success rate of European Research Council (ERC) project submissions from our centre. The sole criterion for the evaluation and…