BIOCEV z.s.p.o. (abbreviation for

Biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

and Biomedicine Center in Vestec) is an association of legal entities which consists of six institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Science and the First Faculty of Medicine of

Charles University in Prague Charles University ( cs, Univerzita Karlova, UK; la, Universitas Carolina; german: Karls-Universität), also known as Charles University in Prague or historically as the University of Prague ( la, Universitas Pragensis, links=no), is the oldest an ...

. The institute was opened in 2015. The institute is located 5 km outside of Prague and was funded by the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovations and the European Regional Development Fund.

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