Innovative Prague XIX
Prague is not only an amazing historical city with a wealth of monuments, excellent gastronomy, cordial residents, and a wide range of events. It is also a modern and innovative science hub. Prague excels in many fields, such as artificial intelligence and robotics, biomedicine, low-carbon technologies, data technologies and selected creative industries, providing ideal opportunities for holding conventions and conferences with the matching topics.
In the nineteenth edition of Innovative Prague, you will learn, how Czech scientist and developers teach AI to recognize various diseases, what kind of research centres have been recently opened in Prague or where the Czech science and research is heading.
Czechs Teach AI How to Improve Lives of Patients
Czech scientists regularly come with new ways how to use the AI to better diagnose various health issues and diseases. According to the news website iRozhlas.cz, such recent discoveries include also the development of new drugs dissolving blood clots. Using artificial intelligence, the scientists change the DNA of bacteria that subsequently create the base for the new drug development. According to Forbes.cz web, Prague based company BTL taught AI to identify the condition of patients’ hearts from the ECG within 10 seconds and thus significantly save time spent with diagnosing patients. Another Prague based company – Channel Lab – developed an AI based software that is able to detect several diseases using retina scan. According to the Hrot24.cz website, Alzheimer’s disease or cardiac issues are among the detected diseases as well. News site Radio.cz also informed about the recent success of Czech scientists and doctors from Prague’s Czech Technical University and the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University who developed an automated technology that, compared to human vision of X-ray, detects tooth decay with far greater accuracy.
Where Are Czech Science and Research Heading?
Countless organizations and institutions participate in the development of Czech science and research. One of them is undoubtedly the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade that updated the National Strategy of Artificial Intelligence. Read the overview of VědaVýzkum.cz website to see what the updated version of strategy contains. Another initiative, this one focused on promoting Czech AI accomplishments abroad, was launched recently. The Czech National AI Platform’s (CNAIP) goal is to interconnect Czech academic, private, public and non-profit sector leaders focusing on the topics related to the AI.
The CzechInvest agency will also help expand the Czech scientific and research horizons. According to the VědaVýzkum.cz website, the agency recently presented new “Work in Czechia” websites intended for foreign qualified applicants that are seeking jobs in technology sector within the Czech Republic. And speaking of technologies – the Quantum Conference which took place in June at the National Library of Technology in Prague presented the trends awaiting us within quantum technologies. The event was co-organized by the Czech Technical University, CzechInvest agency, IBM and Tensor Ventures.
More Research Centres Established in Prague
In addition to the research centres already mentioned in our previous editions of Innovative Prague, others have been recently established in the Czech capital and will be focusing on research and development in several different areas. We are happy to present two more facilities – one of them is the Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which, according to the websites VědaVýzkum.cz, is currently testing a new technology of production of drugs suitable for treatment of small tumours and metastases. A private company, recently founded at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences will newly act in the field of gene therapy using the results of research of the Institute and taking them to practice. More information about both centres can be found on the VědaVýzkum.cz websites.
Would you be interested in learning more interesting facts? Browse through the previous three issues of Innovative Prague: