"I consider this to be another step towards deepening the successful cooperation between the ÚVN and FBMI and I believe that this is not the last joint workplace we have opened. I sincerely hope that we will continue with other projects that can benefit both our institutions," says Václav Masopust, director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine.
Jozef Rosina, Dean of FBMI, adds, "I am very pleased that the establishment of the joint institute will continue the cooperation between the two institutions even more closely. Our students will especially benefit from the opportunity to have professional practice at a renowned workplace, and from interesting and meaningful topics for their bachelor and master theses. I also consider collaboration on joint research topics between our scientists and the Institute's staff to be important and beneficial."
The institute was established on the basis of a cooperation agreement between the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and the FBMI, which was signed by both institutions on 20 November 2024. The institute includes the Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, the Department of Clinical Microbiology and the Central Material Collection and Receiving Centre. Miloš Bohoněk, the current head of the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion at ÚVN, has become the head of the department.
"In addition to teaching goals, one of the main ambitions of the new institute is scientific and research activities based on the use of the clinical and laboratory potential of the Institute, new research laboratories at the FBMI in Kladno and the joint professional background of the Institute, the FBMI, the ACR and the Military Medical Service," says Miloš Bohoněk, head of the institute.
From the establishment of the institute, the hospital also expects to be able to recruit laboratory staff more effectively not only for the hospital itself, but also for the Army of the Czech Republic.
Thanks to the new institute, the teaching at the Department of Health Sciences and Population Protection at FBMI should be strengthened, especially in the bachelor's programme Laboratory Diagnostics in Health Care, in the follow-up master's programme Biomedical Laboratory Methods and in the future also in doctoral studies.
In connection with the establishment of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Hematology and Transfusiology, the zeroth year of the Conference of Laboratory Medicine will be held on 16 April 2025 at the Institute of Veterinary Medicine in cooperation with the FBMI, during which new teaching programmes of the Department of Health Sciences and Population Protection of the FBMI will be presented. There will also be interesting lectures by experts in laboratory medicine and the best undergraduate theses of graduates of the Laboratory Diagnostics in Healthcare programme will be presented.
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