About NCMG

National Center for Medical Genomics

Medical genomics is a dynamically evolving scientific discipline that gathers and uses the genomic information of patients, their genetic relatives and even the entire population to identify the genetic, genomic and molecular basis of human health and disease. NCMG is a distributed scientific infrastructure, which consists of following genomic laboratories: First and Second Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine in  Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, General University Hospital in Prague, Motol University Hospital; BIOCEV - Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec; Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology (IHOK) and Centre of molecular biology and gene therapy (CMBGT) at University Hospital Brno; Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) at Masaryk University at Brno; Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine at Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Palacký University Olomouc; University Hospital in Pilsen.

The objective of NCMG is to provide for an operation of next generation sequencing platforms and subsequent technologies for analysis of human genomes and to allow qualified usage of these technologies in biomedical research and translational medicine in Czech Republic. Different localization and partially different specialization of individual laboratories guarantee expansion of genomics in CR, corresponding with global trends. NCMG laboratories are equipped with modern instruments and provide fundamental instrumental, methodical and experimental expertise, which is necessary for genomic sequencing, whole genome genotyping, cytogenetic analysis and analysis of genome, transcriptome and epigenome. NCMG is also equipped with corresponding computational and data storage resources and offers bioinformatics and statistics support for projects with focus on study of both complex and rare diseases and also oncological diseases.