Klára Kohoutová receives BIOCEV award for study of proteins involved in cellular ageing

Klára Kohoutová from the Laboratory of Structural Biology of Signaling Proteins of IPHYS has received BIOCEV’s 2026 PhD student publication award. The award recognises her first-author study in Nature Communications exploring how two proteins involved in cellular ageing interact. She received the award and presented the research at the 9th BIOCEV DAYS conference on October […]
Kateryna Semenovykh Receives Purkyně Foundation Fund Award for Best Scientific Paper

MMed. Kateryna Semenovykh from the Laboratory of Biological Rhythms of IPHYS has received an award from the Purkyně Foundation Fund for the best scientific paper published in 2025 in the category Theoretical disciplines. She received the award on 15 September at the Waldstein Palace in Prague. She was recognised for her first-author study, Tert Deletion Impairs […]
Up 40%: The journal Physiological Research strengthens its position in the physiology journal ranking and advances to the second quartile

The journal Physiological Research, published by the Institute of Physiology CAS, has achieved notable success in this year’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Its impact factor (IF) rose from 2.0 to 2.8, representing a year-on-year increase of 40%, and the journal advanced to the second quartile (Q2) in the Physiology category. In the field ranking, it moved […]
Emma Hrdličková won 1st place in the national round of the Secondary School Professional Activity competition

Student Emma Hrdličková from Gymnázium Budějovická in Prague achieved outstanding success in the national round of the Secondary School Professional Activity (SOČ), winning 1st place in the Healthcare category. She received the award for her project titled “Neural coding of motivational processes in TgF344AD rats – an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease,” which she carried […]
Letters of Gratitude of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences for Lucie Trajhanová and Dana Šálková

The President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Radomír Pánek has recognised the importance of indispensable non-academic professions that make a crucial contribution to the operation of research institutions by awarding them Letters of Gratitude. Among this year’s awardees are two long-standing colleagues of IPHYS – MSc. Lucie Trajhanová from the Scientific Information Centre (Library) […]
Strengthening the Research Environment at IPHYS: Ethics, Open Science, International Collaboration and Science Communication

From 1 January 2026, IPHYS will make use of three years of support from European funds under the OP JAK program to systematically strengthen its research environment. The aim of the project is to increase the quality and transparency of research, enhance the institute’s international competitiveness and better share the benefits of biomedical research with […]