1. Targeted support for cancer research and results of supported projects
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Kučera, Zdeněk, Vondrák, Tomáš, and Pecha, Ondřej
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neoplastic disease ,national public support ,cancer ,Horizon Europe framework ,bibliometric evaluation ,EU Mission Cancer - Abstract
The topic of this contribution is the evaluation of the national public support of the R&D projects in the field of neoplastic disease and the appraisal of the results of these projects. The evaluations were carried out in the research field framework of the EU Mission Cancer of the Horizon Europe framework programme. The public support of cancer research in the Czech Republic is rather high. Since the year 2015, more than six hundred projects focused on specific aspects of cancer received public funding. The total public support of these projects reached six billion CZK. Approximately two billion CZK came from the Ministry of Health Programme to support the applied medical R&D in the years 2015–2022. The largest fraction of the projects focused on understanding the mechanisms of neoplastic disease and the diagnostics and the therapy of cancer. On the other hand, a relatively small number of projects fell into the field of cancer prevention. The largest cancer research capacity exhibits the medical faculties of Charles University, Masaryk University, and Palacky University. Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute in Brno also carries out extensive cancer research. The prevalent results of the projects are publications, mainly in impacted journals. Their average citation index exceeds the world average values. Besides the publications, the implemented projects generated a large number of applicable results. The most frequent of these were prototypes and functional samples. Intellectual property rights covered a large number of the applicable results.
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- 2021
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