The FNUSA

• An international interdisciplinary research center built up with a significant financial contribution from the European Union within the St. Anne´s University Hospital in Brno • Focuses on heart and brain disorders/diseases and selected oncological diseases. • The aim is to find new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic methods for problems that prevent healthy aging. • It currently has 30 research teams and employs 400 staff from 20 countries. • Researchers ot he Center have received a number of awards in 7 years, including one of the Czech Head, the Alzheimer's Association for Young Scientists, the European Stroke Organization Award for Contribution to Stroke, or the Austrian Ministry of Innovation. • In the short term of its existence, it has produced 2 patents and 7 utility or industrial models for new technologies. • Its researchers publish in the most prestigious foreign journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, or Science Translational Medicine. • Cooperates with a number of reputable foreign research centers, such as the renowned American Mayo Clinic, the University of California, University of Oxford, or the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. • Cooperates with many industrial companies from the Czech Republic and abroad, is a strategic partner of the American company IQVIA, the largest provider of clinical trials.