IOCB Tech Foundation (Nadační fond IOCB Tech)

Meet the First Six Projects in Prague.bio Conference 2025 Pitch Session 🚀 The Pitch Session is an essential part of Prague.bio Conference – and once again, it's going to be one of the most anticipated highlights of the event this year! Twelve top-tier startups and scientific projects will compete for the title of Best Presentation, and also, thanks to the Nadační fond IOCB Tech, €6,000 in prize money. Let’s introduce the first 6 participants: 🔬 Biopolycore: SignaCell - Signaling biopolymers with active structure and surface architecture 🧫 DIANA Biotechnologies: Ultra-Sensitive PCR platform for sepsis pathogen detection from whole blood 🧠 University Hospital Hradec Kralove: Antiepileptic effect of a novel N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors antagonist ❤️ HeartBeat.bio AG: Unique human-centric and AI-driven TechBio platform for unlocking innovation in heart failure drug discovery. 🧬 Ústav organické chemie a biochemie AV ČR: STING-ADC for cancer therapy 🧪 LipidEra Therapeutics: Pioneering breakthrough therapies for lipid-related conditions 👉 Stay tuned for Part 2 – the remaining six projects will come tomorrow! #PragueBio #BiotechInnovation #PitchSession #TechTransfer #HealthTech #BiotechStartups Want to see the pitches? Don’t hesitate and attend the Prague.bio Conference 2025. 🎟️ Info & tickets: https://lnkd.in/dCbgSH2v 📅 Event date: September 25 in Prague, Czech Republic

Building the SynBio community in the Czech Republic from the bottom up: You get what you give! That’s the title of an article published by Stanislav Juračka and colleagues three years ago. It shined a light on the emerging synthetic biology scene in the Czech Republic, where iGEM and student teams like ours play a crucial role. Fast forward to today, and the progress has been big. Last year, the Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe conference was held in Brno, organized by Pavel Dvořák, a pioneer of SynBio in the Czech Republic. The Czech SynBio Node initiative was launched - bringing together labs across the country working in or applying synthetic biology. Klara Hlouchova’s group was awarded a prestigious ERC grant for a pure SynBio project: engineering a bacterium that can survive without one of the standard amino acids. And this year? For the first time ever, two iGEM teams emerged from the Czech Republic - iGEM Brno and iGEM Prague. When we look beyond the borders of our small country, one thing is clear: Synthetic Biology could become the “IT” of the 3rd millennium.´The real question is, which countries will lead the way? At iGEM Brno, we believe the Czech Republic can be one of them. But to make that happen, our scientists need to take on bigger challenges - be bolder. And just as importantly, grant-makers and venture capitalists need to recognize the opportunity: the chance for the Czech Republic to become (at least) European leader in the bioeconomy. That’s why we’re incredibly proud and thankful to have the IOCB Tech Foundation (Nadační fond IOCB Tech) backing our mission - to scale agriculture and win iGEM as the first Czechoslovak team in the history of synthetic biology. We’re proud to call IOCB Tech Foundation our General Sponsor - thank you! And since we’ve been given so much, we’re not just building great tech and chasing medals - we’re spreading the word about SynBio, about programming life, among our generation of young scientists. We tried it for the first time in front of the best audience possible - in Běstvina, at the meeting of the high school chemistry and biology Olympians of the Czech Republic! Around 40 - 50 of the brightest minds in biology and chemistry from across the country gathered at 8 p.m., after a day full of lectures, to hear Pavel explain how they can program life; to hear us explain how to participate in iGEM; and to be entertained by Adrián Svoboda sharing iGEM Prague’s pursuit to brew beer - without hops! Hopefully, this generation will soon shape the direction of research in the Czech Republic - ideally toward bold ideas that lay the foundation for our future bioeconomy!

Building the SynBio community in the Czech Republic from the bottom up: You get what you give! That’s the title of an article published by Stanislav Juračka and colleagues three years ago. It shined a light on the emerging synthetic biology scene in the Czech Republic, where iGEM and student teams like ours play a crucial role. Fast forward to today, and the progress has been big. Last year, the Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe conference was held in Brno, organized by Pavel Dvořák, a pioneer of SynBio in the Czech Republic. The Czech SynBio Node initiative was launched - bringing together labs across the country working in or applying synthetic biology. Klara Hlouchova’s group was awarded a prestigious ERC grant for a pure SynBio project: engineering a bacterium that can survive without one of the standard amino acids. And this year? For the first time ever, two iGEM teams emerged from the Czech Republic - iGEM Brno and iGEM Prague. When we look beyond the borders of our small country, one thing is clear: Synthetic Biology could become the “IT” of the 3rd millennium.´The real question is, which countries will lead the way? At iGEM Brno, we believe the Czech Republic can be one of them. But to make that happen, our scientists need to take on bigger challenges - be bolder. And just as importantly, grant-makers and venture capitalists need to recognize the opportunity: the chance for the Czech Republic to become (at least) European leader in the bioeconomy. That’s why we’re incredibly proud and thankful to have the IOCB Tech Foundation (Nadační fond IOCB Tech) backing our mission - to scale agriculture and win iGEM as the first Czechoslovak team in the history of synthetic biology. We’re proud to call IOCB Tech Foundation our General Sponsor - thank you! And since we’ve been given so much, we’re not just building great tech and chasing medals - we’re spreading the word about SynBio, about programming life, among our generation of young scientists. We tried it for the first time in front of the best audience possible - in Běstvina, at the meeting of the high school chemistry and biology Olympians of the Czech Republic! Around 40 - 50 of the brightest minds in biology and chemistry from across the country gathered at 8 p.m., after a day full of lectures, to hear Pavel explain how they can program life; to hear us explain how to participate in iGEM; and to be entertained by Adrián Svoboda sharing iGEM Prague’s pursuit to brew beer - without hops! Hopefully, this generation will soon shape the direction of research in the Czech Republic - ideally toward bold ideas that lay the foundation for our future bioeconomy!