Research achievements and awards

12 Nov

Vice-Rector for Science and Research honored excellent doctoral students

On Thursday, November 6, 36 doctoral students and their supervisors or consultants received the Vice-Rector for Research Award for excellent results in doctoral studies at Masaryk University. From our Department of Chemistry, Matúš Chvojka and his supervisors Vladimír Šindelář and Hennie Valkenier Matúš Chvojka graduated from the Faculty of Science in the Chemistry program, specializing in Organic Chemistry. He focused on diseases caused by dysfunctional channels in cell membranes, such as cystic fibrosis. He developed a new type of transport compounds to replace nonfunctional proteins in patients, opening new possibilities for targeted therapies.

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10 Nov

Alfred Bader Prizes 2025

Dr. Tomáš Fiala has received the Alfred Bader Prize for Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry 2025.
This prestigious award, awarded in cooperation with the Czech Chemical Society and the Bader Philanthropies Foundation, founded by Alfred Bader, founder of Aldrich Chemicals, is intended for Czech chemists under the age of 35. The award includes a lecture by the laureate at the annual conference “Liblice – Advances in Organic, Bioorganic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry”.

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1 Jul

Jean-Marie Lehn award in Chemistry 2025

On June 26, 2025, the French Embassy in the Czech Republic announced the results of the 31th edition of the Jean-Marie Lehn Prize for Chemistry competition for doctoral students and recent doctoral graduates. The second place was taken by our recent graduate Matúš Chvojka. Congratulations!

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30 Jun

Dean’s Awards 2025

Dean Tomáš Kašparovský ceremoniously presented the Dean’s Awards to the most successful students for their outstanding academic and scientific achievements. From the Department of Chemistry, Eliška Šranková and Radim Štůsek won the prize in the category Best students of the bachelor's and master's study program, and Markéta Bosáková in the category Best student of the doctoral study program.

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5 Jun

Awards of the Head of the Department of Chemistry 2025

The head of the Department of Chemistry, Petr Táborský, has presented the Head of the Department of Chemistry 2025 awards to the seven best students for their excellent research or study results, representation of the department, or contribution to the student community.

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12 May

Tomáš Fiala from the Department of Chemistry Receives Prestigious MASH StG/CoG Grant

Masaryk University has awarded nine internal MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) grants in a new category—MASH StG/CoG—through its Grant Agency of Masaryk University (GAMU). This category is specifically aimed at supporting early-career researchers who plan to apply for European Research Council (ERC) Starting or Consolidator Grants. Among the recipients is Tomáš Fiala from the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science.

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22 Apr

Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition 2025

At the international Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition 2025, which took place from March 26 to 30 in Beijing, a student of the Šlapanice Gymnasium, Olivie Maya Matyasková, achieved an extraordinary result. She worked on her scientific project “Diels-Alder reaction of new benzoquinones” at the Department of Chemistry in the research group of Assoc. Prof. Kamil Paruch. She placed in the gold zone (First Prize) and also took home the second prize from the prestigious Yanqi Innovation Competition. Congratulations!

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13 Dec 2024

MUNI Scientist 2024

The most successful scientists or research teams of Masaryk University have been awarded the MUNI SCIENTIST AWARD 2024 for their significant achievements, publication in prestigious journals and research results. Awardee from the Department of Chemistry was Prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D. for an article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulation!

Research achievements and awards

11 Nov 2024

Vice-rector's award for excellent results in doctoral studies 2024

Dr. Petr Macháč is a graduate of the doctoral study program of Chemistry, and last week, he was awarded the Vice-rector's award for excellent results in doctoral studies. Using a wide range of methods, Petr investigated the porosity and thermal stability of porous materials and their potential synthesis for applications in catalytic chemistry. With his supervisor, prof. Jiří Pinkas from our Department of Chemistry received the award from Vice-rector prof. Pospíšilová.

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4 Jul 2024

Jean-Marie Lehn Prize for Chemistry 2024

On June 28, 2024, the French Embassy in the Czech Republic announced the results of the 30th edition of the Jean-Marie Lehn Prize for Chemistry competition for doctoral students and recent doctoral graduates. The third place was taken by our recent graduate Petr Macháč for his research "Synthesis and characterization of catalysts." The special prize of the Czech Chemical Society was also received by our recent graduate Helena Hrušková for the work "Micro- and mezzo-fluidic instrumentation for the enrichment of biological samples". Congratulations!

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14 Jun 2024

Dean’s Awards 2024

Dean Tomáš Kašparovský has presented awards to the best students of the MU Faculty of Science. This year’s Dean’s Awards were presented to a total of ten laureates in the Best Student category in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme, and to eleven promising scientists in the Best Student category of the Doctoral study programme. Moreover, the award was also presented to three teams of fourteen outstanding students of the pregraduate and postgraduate programmes. Awarded students from the Department of Chemistry were Bc. Leoš Sáblík, Mgr. Matúš Chvojka and a team of students who organize ViBuCh Educational i-course for future chemists. Congratulations to all the winners!

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5 Jun 2024

Awards of the Head of the Department of Chemistry 2024

The head of the Department of Chemistry, Petr Táborský, has presented the Head of the Department of Chemistry 2024 awards to the six best students and to the three students for their extraordinary contributions to popularisation and propagation activities.

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15 Dec 2023

Ctibor Mazal receive the MU Bronze medal

The Dean of Masaryk University’s (MU) Faculty of Science, Tomáš Kašparovský, thanked Ctibor Mazal for the extraordinary results he has achieved as director of the Department of Chemistry by presenting him with the MU Bronze Medal.

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14 Dec 2023

Brno announces its PhD talents for 2023

We would like to share the great news from the Brno PhD Talent Competition, which already knows its winners. In this year's competition, Kateřina Hrůzová, PhD student at the Department of Chemistry, succeeded. The competition is aimed at students in the first year of doctoral studies carried out in the city of Brno. Its main goal is to support young scientists in their study and scientific endeavors. Congratulation to Kateřina!

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13 Dec 2023

MUNI SCIENTIST AWARD 2023

The most successful scientists or research teams of Masaryk University have been awarded the MUNI SCIENTIST AWARD 2023 for their significant achievements, publication in prestigious journals and research results. This year, GAMU awarded 37 excellent scientists or research teams. More than thirty researchers personally attended the awards ceremony in the refectory of the Mendel Museum. Awardees from the Department of Chemistry were Mgr. Jakub Švenda, Ph.D. for an article published in Angewandte Chemie and doc. RNDr. Mgr. Jozef Hritz, Ph.D. for receiving the prestigious Excellence Hubs grant.

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8 Jun 2023

Dean’s Awards 2023

Dean Tomáš Kašparovský has presented awards to the best students of the MU Faculty of Science. From the Department of Chemistry, Petra Pikulová was awarded in the category of Best Student in a Bachelor’s or Master’s study programme, and Marek Stiborek in the category of Best Student in the Doctoral study programme.

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12 Feb 2023

The competition for the best student scientific work in the field of analytical chemistry "Karel Štulík Award 2023"

Our student Bc. Lívia Rigasová won second place in the 26th year of the competition for the best student scientific work in the field of analytical chemistry "Karel Štulík Award 2023" with her scientific work Tools for biomolecule recognition under the supervision doc. Vaculovič.

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5 Dec 2022

Vice-rector's award for excellent results in doctoral studies 2022

Dr. Josef Kučera is a graduate of the doctoral study program of Chemistry. Currently, he works as a postdoc in the research group of prof. Lenka Hernychová from the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute. He was awarded Vice-rector's award for excellent results in doctoral studies. With his supervisor doc. Petr Táborský from our Department of Chemistry received the award from Vice-rector prof. Pospíšilová.

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2 Dec 2022

MUNI Scientist award 2022

The grant agency of Masaryk University held its annual conference on 30th November, in the Augustinian Abbey. MUNI Scientist awards were presented for the third time as part of the program. Among the winners were also our scientists doc. Kamil Paruch, prof. Petr Klán, and prof. Radek Marek.

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22 Nov 2022

Award for contribution to teaching at Masaryk University in the field of natural sciences 2022

Erik Kalla, a doctoral student of Chemistry, was awarded by the students’ chamber the Award for contribution to teaching at Masaryk University in the field of natural sciences. Congratulation!

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22 Sep 2022

A new mechanism regulating RNA splicing was discovered by a team led by Dalibor Blazek

The scientific journal NATURE has just published the discovery of the research team led by Dalibor Blazek from CEITEC MU that describes a previously unknown mechanism regulating RNA splicing – an essential process for the control of gene expression. Labs of Kamil Paruch from the Department of Chemistry at Masaryk Universitycontributed by performing the chemical-biology characterization of OTS964.

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22 Sep 2022

Our Spin-off CasInvent Pharma Raises €1.3 Million from Foreign Investors

A unique investment has been made in the university spin-off company CasInvent Pharma, which is developing compounds with anticancer properties. The KHAN Technology Transfer Fund I and i&i Biotech Fund invested €1.3 million in the company. With this funding, CasInvent Pharma will be strengthening the development and preclinical testing of a compound for the treatment of leukaemia.

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19 Jul 2022

Jean-Marie Lehn Prize for Chemistry 2022

Two of our students took part in this year's Jean-Marie Lehn award for chemistry. Dominik Madea took 3rd place and Martin Kejík was in the top ten. Congratulation!

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21 Feb 2022

Excellent evaluation by GACR for SCI MUNI research

A three-year project on the development of thermoelectric materials with high efficiency and especially on the study of their long-term operational stability was evaluated as excellent by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GACR). The MU Faculty of Science team was led by Pavel Brož, who undertook the study alongside a team from the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Jiří Buršík, and colleagues from the University of Vienna. Congratulations!

Research achievements and awards

8 Dec 2021

The Dean awarded personalities of our Faculty of Science

Dean of the Faculty of Science Tomáš Kašparovský honoured 36 personalities who had made a significant contribution to the development of the Faculty, and its departments and institutes, over the last few decades. From the Department of Chemistry were awarded prof. Josef Havel, prof. Vítězslav Otruba, prof. Milan Potáček and prof. Zdirad Žák.

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21 Nov 2021

MUNI Scientist Awards recognise the university’s excellent achievements in research

Second MUNI Scientist Awards were granted at the annual conference of the Grant Agency of Masaryk University. Two researchers from the Department of Chemistry prof. Mojmír Šob and prof. Vladimír Šindelář were awarded. Congratulations!

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19 Nov 2021

Scientists from the Faculty of Science win the MUNI Innovation Award

During the recent Business Research Forum, Masaryk University (MU) presented its new MUNI Innovation Award for innovative achievement for the first time. Among the awardees was Kamil Paruch from Dept. of Chemistry with Vítězslav Bryjaand Pavlína Janovská (both Dept.of Experimental Biology) for unique research in the field of casein kinase 1 inhibition, which included the synthesis of new highly selective and patentable compounds. The work led to the establishment of the university spin-off company CasInvent Pharma, the main aim of which is to bring selected compounds up to the clinical trial stage. Congratulations!

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18 Oct 2021

Achievements of analytical chemistry students

Last week, Dean Tomáš Kašparovský personally presented the Dean’s Awards for Best Students at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. Two chemistry students were awarded:

Zuzana Husáková, a student in the Chemistry Master’s study program, specialises in Analytical Chemistry
Martina Nechvátalová, a graduate of the Chemistry Doctoral study program

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20 Sep 2021

Seeing the structure of our molecule for the first time was the biggest “wow” moment, says Vladimír Šindelář

Vladimír Šindelář studied at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague, where he obtained his PhD at the Department of Polymers. He completed postdoctoral internships at Heriot-Watt University, Great Britain, and the University of Miami, USA. Since 2005 he has been working at the Department of Chemistry.

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8 Apr 2021

Jean-Marie Lehn Award 2019

The French Embassy in Prague annually awards the best young researchers from Czech universities and research institutions for their extraordinary scientific achievements. This year, our student Vaclav Nemec took second place Jean-Marie Lehn Prize for Chemistry.

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11 Jan 2021

A pharmaceutical company has been involved in the development of oncological drugs from MUNI

Artios Pharma Ltd. and Merck KGaA recently announced a three-year research collaboration aimed at discovering and developing new cancer drugs. This collaborative agreement will also make use of results gained through cooperation with Kamil Paruch and Lumír Krejčí research groups.

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14 Dec 2020

University Spin-Off to Focus on Developing New Cancer Drugs

A new spin-off company, CasInvent Pharma, a.s., has been established by Masaryk University (MU) in cooperation with its investment partner, i&i Prague, s.r.o. (Ltd), in order to facilitate further development of new compounds that could be used to treat certain types of leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours. The company will test the compounds that inhibit the enzyme Casein Kinase 1 (CK1) which is responsible, among other things, for the migration of leukaemia cells into lymphoid organs.