On May 18–19, 2026, IPHYS hosted the 9th Czech Lipidomics and Metabolomics Conference in the historic building of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Over two days, more than 70 experts from academia and industry discussed the latest advances in metabolism research, modern analytical methods, and their applications in medicine.
Researchers and students presented new findings, experiences, and cutting-edge technologies in a total of 22 lectures and 20 poster presentations. “A distinguished guest of this year’s conference was Oliver Fiehn from the UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center (USA). In his lecture, he presented the possibilities of combining different metabolomics approaches and emphasized the need for transparent and standardized metabolomics workflows,” said the main organizer of the event, Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Čajka, head of the Laboratory of Translational Metabolism and service Department of Metabolomics.
As part of the accompanying program, Oliver Fiehn also delivered a guest lecture at IPHYS titled “Multi-omics Analysis of the Non-failing and Failing Human Heart.” In his talk, he introduced a remarkable metabolomics study conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jun Ding from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University (China), which provided a detailed characterization of spatial metabolic remodeling in the failing human heart. By integrating untargeted and targeted metabolomics with transcriptomics, the team created the first highly detailed metabolic atlas of the failing human heart, covering 17 anatomical regions and more than 2,200 annotated compounds. The study revealed how different regions of the heart function distinctly under healthy conditions and how heart failure disrupts this balance, altering cardiac energy metabolism.
Both the conference and the guest lecture clearly demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and advanced research approaches for improving our understanding of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
