International clinic labs to open in Czech Republic in 2008

Two laboratories belonging to the International Clinical Research Centre (ICRC), where Czech doctors will be able to cooperate with specialists from the US Mayo Clinic, will open in Brno next year and later be moved to a new ICRC centre to be completed by 2011. Construction of the final site, to be built within the complex of the St Anne Teaching Hospital, is to begin in mid-2008. Health Minister Tomas Julinek said the government had earmarked 1.5 to 2 billion crowns for the project. The ICRC will focus on research in such areas as cardiology, cardiosurgery, internal medicine, and neurology. Patients will also be treated there; the latest methods in medicine developed in the US will be made available to Czech patients at the centre.

Author: Jan Velinger