Several group members and collaborators presented their work at the recent 6th International Workshop on Granulation (Sheffield, UK). Marek Schöngut had an oral presentation while David Smrčka, Diana Majerová, Rafael Contreras and Sarang Oka presented posters. Many congratulations to Diana for a poster award in the “Most pharmaceutically relevant poster” category!
Yearly Archives: 2013
New funding for research on microencapsulation
A research project titled “Technologies for survival in the post-antibiotic era” has received a CZK 1m funding from Karel Janeček Foundation. Novel microencapsulation technologies will be developed to allow in situ formation of a new generation of antibiotics.

František Štěpánek was officially appointed a professor
After succesfully passing all the proceedings needed to become a professor during last autumn, František Štěpánek was officially appointed on June 11, 2013 by the president of Czech republic.
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Congratulations to Anna and Jan for becoming engineers!
Many congratulations to Anna Pittermannová and Jan Zíka for earning a Masters degree in Chemical engineering and bioengineering!
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Anna won a competition with her diploma thesis
Many congratulations to our team member, Anna Pittermannová, for winning a Stand up Diploma Theses (Diplomky na stojáka) competition. She excelled in the natural science category with her thesis named Specific Bioadhesion of Nanoparticles, which could make for example cancer treatment without any side effects possible.
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Ivan Saloň recieved a grant from Tatra Banka Foundation
CHOBOTIX team member, PhD. student Ivan Saloň was awarded with a grant for a stay at Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) in a grant program ,,Students to the world” from Tatra Banka Foundation (Slovakia). Many congratulations to Ivan!

Ondra and Viola are lecturing at EMRS – Spring 13 Conference
Two of our team members, pHd. students Viola Tokárová and Ondřej Kašpar, are attending the Spring 13 Conference of EMRS with a lecture and a poster in the section Design of multifunctional nano-objects for biomedical applications. The conference takes place in Congress Center – Strasbourg, France between May 27 and 31.
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Our team is attending the SSCHE Conference
Come see some of the newest results of our research at the 40th International Conference of SSCHE, where five members of our team are contributing with four lectures and one poster presentation. The conference will take place in a charming area of Vysoké Tatry (High Tatras), in Hotel Hutník, Tatranské Matliare, Slovakia between May 27 – 31, 2013.
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Chobotix meeting
The “Chobotix 2013″ one-day meeting took place today, with several oral presentations (see program here).
Conference PARTEC 2013
Chobotix team members delivered four oral presentations and two posters at the PARTEC 2013 conference held in Nuremberg, Germany – a major international congress covering all aspects of modern particle technology. Many thanks to Viola, Petra, Marek and Ondrej for your excellent presentations!