In this issue, we feature an article by Professor Jiří Drahoš, president of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic. The article focuses on a current situation of in the Academy. He emphasises that the ASCR is the most efficient institution in the field of science and research in Czech Republic. What's more, the Aca demy was 99th among 2000 institutions evaluated by Clmago Institutions Ranking: 2009 World Report. In December 2009 at the Academic Assembly, the Czech Science Academy head. Censured the Government Council for Research and. Development and Innovation for downgrading its funding system of support for science. In his speech at the Assembly he also stressed that Academy as a consequence of its research continuously returns to society what it has received for its scientific endeavours from public finances. and Jiří Drahoš.
Distinguished Czech women scientists have received the L'Oreal Award. The ceremony occurred at the beautiful auditorium of National Technical Library in Prague May 23, 2013. Laureates of this year For Women in Science are Lubomíra Balková from Department of Mathematics Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Czech Technical University; Martina Čečkova, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hradec Kralové and Eva Froňková from the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague. and Ing. Gabriela Adámková.
The Institute of Nanobiology and Structural Biology of the Global Change Research Centre of the AS CR organizes two scientific and research summer schools for selected Czech and foreign students at the Academic and University Center Nové Hrady. The mission of Undergraduate Summer Research in Molecular Biophysics was to enable students of the physical and mathematical sciences from colleges with limited research to address important problems in biology. The program offered cross-disciplinary research experience in leading laboratories. Summer School in Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology supported by the International Visegrad Fund, gave students the opportunity to work with specialists-tutors, take part in outstanding lectures and get a new view of methodology and research in the field of systems biology. and Tomáš Rolínek.