News
September 2024: The Bader Philanthropies came this spring to see the labs and hear about our efforts at Masaryk University, which they have supported over the years. What a moment, what a memory!
June 2024: Sincere congratulations to Petr Sevelda for being accepted into the PhD program at New York University!
June 2024: High school students make a splash! Our own Olivia Maya Matyaskova, doing a high-school internship in our labs, came 3rd in the national round of the so-called Student Professional Activities competition.
January 2024: Paula and Taufique stole the show at the yearly PhD chemistry conference at MUNI by giving the two best talks. Well done!
May 2023: Congratulations to Pawel for successfully defending his dissertation. Well done Dr. Szczepanik!
November 2022: Congratulations to Paula, Prashant and Vašek: their poster on CK1 inhibitors won the Otakar Červinka prize for the best poster at the conference Liblice 2022 (in the competition of 120 posters).
September 2022: Our spin-off company CasInvent Pharma raises €1.3 M from KHAN-I and i&i Biotech Fund to support the development of new casein kinase 1 inhibitors for the treatment of leukemias and solid tumors. Link
September 2022: "It is with great sadness, Bader Philanthropies shares the news of Isabel Overton Bader’s passing on August 28, 2022 at the age of 95." Alfred and Isabel Bader have been the visionaries in supporting organic chemistry in the Czech Republic, including people and science in our laboratory.
August 2022: Launch of the new lab website.
February 2022: Congratulations to Pawel Szczepanik on being one of two winners of the 1st Blue Danube PhD Symposium.
August 2021: New NMR machine is here. NMR 500 MHz magnet, Avance NEO console. Nitrogen-cooled broad-band PRODIGY cryo-probe and room temperature broad-band IProbe. Sample changer SampleCase for 60 samples.
December 2020: https://www.iniprague.com/casinvent-new-university-spin-off-focused-on-developing-new-cancer-drugs-established-with-help-of-ii-prague/
September 2019: Big congratulations to Petra Vojáčková for getting into the Chemistry PhD program at Harvard!
June 2019: Petra Vojáčková received Masaryk University Rector's Award for the Best Students in Master's program. She is also the winner of the Synthon Award. Well done!
April 2019: Filip Svěrák and Jan Obořil succeed at the National Chemistry Olympiad (1st and 2nd place, respectively)
November 2018: Roman Kučera is accepted to the Chemistry PhD program at Oxford, UK. Congrats Roman!
May 2018: Lukáš Maier: 1st place (chemistry): 18th Interdisciplinary Metting of Young Researchers and students in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and biomaterials. Hotel Devět Skal Milovy. Congrats Lukas!
August 2017: With Dr. Lumír Krejčí, we signed a collaboration agreement with the UK-based company Artios Pharma on the development of nuclease inhibitors.
July 2017: Ondřej Hylse got job as a project leader at Synthon, Czech Republic. Well done!