HST Chamber of Commerce Switzerland - Czech Republic 

invites you to a

Czech-Swiss Innovation Day
 

In cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bern and with the technology cluster STAR we are organizing a Czech-Swiss Innovation Day to introduce BIOCEV center in Vestec, and in Dolní Břežany Eli Beamlines, which operates the world’s most intense laser system and HiLase. one of the workplaces of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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In the Czech and European scientific context, BIOCEV represents the apex comprehensive platform for developing modern biotechnology and biomedicine. Establishing this centre has enabled interconnecting domains in the technical and natural sciences, such as virology or chemistry that are strong in their own right. The BIOCEV research groups focus on detailed discoveries about organisms at the molecular level. Their findings are geared towards applied research and the development of new therapies to counter serious medical conditions. Research achievements of work done at BIOCEV include medicines targeted to the precise site of injury in the body as well as protein and tissue engineering. One of the six BIOCEV research institutes is the largest of its kind in Central Europe, producing specialised, genetically modified mice that are used as tools for the research of gene functions. They key international project is called the Encyclopaedia of Mammalian Gene Functions, which is focused on the primary description of functions of all genes over the next ten years. The results of research may positively affect the treatment of serious illnesses.


ELI Beamlines is a part of the ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) pan-European project. ELI Beamlines aims to establish and operate the world’s most intense laser system. With ultra-high power 10 PW (1 petawatt = 1,000,000,000,000,000 watts) and concentrated intensities of up to 1024 W/cm2, we offer our users a unique source of radiation and rays of accelerated particles. These beamlines will enable pioneering research not only in physics and material science, but also in biomedicine and laboratory astrophysics and many other fields. As well as basic research and development in the field of lasers, ELI Beamlines also deals with applied research addressing a wide range of issues incuding cancer treatment, medical imaging, fast electronics, ageing studies of a nuclear reactor and development of new nuclear waste treatment methods. 


The HiLASE Centre is one of the workplaces of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The HiLASE team is dedicated to developing a new generation of high energy diode- pumped solid state laser systems with high repetition rates. With this technology, lasers are significantly stronger, more powerful, more compact, and more stable than currently available devices. One of the research topics is the operation of the Bivoj superlaser. This is the most powerful diode-pumped solid-state laser, a unique laser technology developed jointly by researchers from HiLASE together with British scientists from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. However, the greatest added value of the center is the unique combination of experimental laser development and advanced industrial applications under one roof. Thanks to close cooperation with high-tech companies and knowledge of their needs, the HiLASE center focuses mainly on the preparation of functional materials, increasing the resistance of the material and on laser micro- processing.