BIOCEV (abbreviation for

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and Biomedicine Centre in Vestec) was an association of

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which consisted of six institutes of the

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, , abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sc ...

, the Faculty of Science and the First Faculty of Medicine of

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. The institute was opened in 2015. It was closed in 2021. The institute was located in Vestec 5 km outside of Prague and was funded by the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovations and the

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