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The Pilsen Region is home to state-of-the-art university and corporate research centers focusing primarily on materials, IT, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biomedicine.
Research conducted by companies, faculties, and research centers in the region concentrates on five main areas that can be a significant factor in its economic performance and international competitiveness.
These are: Smart Mobility, New Materials and Technologies, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Biomedicine and Healthcare Technology, and Modern Energy.
There are more than 150 scientific, research, and development teams operating in the region, both in universities and companies.
The Pilsen Region supports the systematic development of areas of specialization, building its identity and uniqueness on them.
The systematic development of specific fields takes place within the framework of the Regional Innovation Strategy of the Pilsen Region.
Innovation, startups, science, education, and support for local businesses.
Innovation, startups, science, education, and support for local businesses.
Innovation, startups, science, education, and support for local businesses.
Innovation, startups, science, education, and support for local businesses.
Innovation, startups, science, education, and support for local businesses.
Research and development in the area of technical sciences is conducted across faculties, institutes, and scientific workplaces at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Other research organizations include COMTES FHT a.s. and VZÚ Plzeň s.r.o.
Research and development in natural, humanities, and social sciences takes place across faculties, institutes, and research centers at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. These include, in particular, the Faculty of Applied Sciences and the NTIS Research Center – New Technologies for the Information Society, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Health Studies, and the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art.
Since its founding in 1945, the Pilsen Faculty of Medicine has been developing scientific research in parallel with teaching. Its researchers have managed to reach the European top in many fields and achieve many priority discoveries.
The faculty systematically supports its research teams and has taken the bold step of building a modern, research-focused Biomedical Center on its new campus. Since 2014, most of the research activities of the Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen have been concentrated there.
The center focuses primarily on infectious diseases (sepsis, antibiotic resistance of bacteria, prophylaxis of viral infections in transplantology), oncological issues in connection with experimental surgery, biocompatibility, stem cell issues, neurophysiology, and reproductive medicine.
Research into infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Pilsen is among the highest rated in the Czech Republic, as evidenced by the number of publications in the most prestigious journals in the field. However, other scientific teams are not lagging behind in terms of results in the field of infectious diseases. A major success for the center was the acquisition and launch of the CHAPERON project as part of the European Horizon 2020 program (ERA Chair).
hanks to him, a new Laboratory of Translational Genomics of Cancer Diseases was launched in 2020 under the leadership of Prof. Kari Hemminki (formerly Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg). The center is also successful in protecting discoveries through patents, has initial experience with their commercialization, and works on contract research orders (annual volume of contract research orders: CZK 2 million).
There are more than 150 scientific, research, and development teams operating in the Pilsen Region, across faculties, institutes, and scientific workplaces of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Pilsen. Interconnection with the private sector brings teams many awards, even on an international scale. Other research organizations also operate in the region, such as COMTES FHT a.s. and Výzkumný a zkušební ústav Plzeň s.r.o. A complete list of scientific teams operating at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, including a breakdown by field of expertise, is available on the University’s website.
