On Wednesday 16 October, the first edition of the Core Facility Day Life Sciences 2024 took place at the CEITEC building in the Bohunice campus. The aim of the day-long conference, which welcomed all academic and non-academic staff from Masaryk University, as well as the public, was to present professional services, equipment and facilities that can be used for research activities.
The event included a tour of the laboratories and equipment of participating entities, such as CEITEC, RECETOX or the Faculty of Sports Studies. The BioPharma HUB, a strategic university project being built for the Faculty of Pharmacy and other institutions, was also introduced at the event.
During the conference, a lecture on behalf of the Faculty of Pharmacy was given by Associate Professor PharmDr. Jan Gajdziok, Ph.D., who spoke about the Food Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facilities that will be a unique part of the new BioPharma Hub building. The intention of MUNI realized through the Faculty of Pharmacy activities is to build a GMP facility to develop and manufacture drug forms and evaluate their quality. The innovative technical concept of the new facility is high flexibility in responding to the requirements of a specific project. The GMP pilot plant will serve the development, evaluation, and production of liquid, semi-solid, and solid drug forms. The uniqueness of this facility also lies in the possibility of preparing liquid and lyophilized sterile drug forms.
To learn more about all the Core Facilities involved and preview the presentations from all sessions, see the CEITEC website.
In the latest MUNIPHARM talks episode, our student ambassador Martina sits down to chat with Jimena and Veronica, students from Spain who spent last year at our faculty within the Erasmus+ study programme.
On Monday, 14 October, a Matriculation ceremony of first-year students was held in the large lecture hall of the Faculty of Pharmacy. There were three ceremonies during which almost two hundred students of the Czech and three dozen students of the English Master's degree programme Pharmacy, and nearly five dozen students of the Bachelor's programme Cosmetic products were formally accepted among the academic community.
