We are celebrating our first anniversary!

Exactly on April 1, 2014, ten years ago today, the story of the Agency for Healthcare Research (AZV) ČR began to be written. A story that over the years has been and continues to be shared by many personalities of the Czech health care and medical research, who are trying to cultivate and develop it so that it can continue to be written - and for that they deserve a great deal of thanks. A special thanks is due to the founder of the agency and its first chairman, Professor Miroslav Rysk, who was associated with AZV ČR for almost nine years but unfortunately did not live to see its 10th birthday.

"It is a great honour and pleasure for me to continue the mission that Professor Ryska has started and I believe that the Council will continue to successfully fulfil its main mission, which is to promote quality and innovative medical research and development," says AZV ČR Chair, Professor Ondřej Slabý, adding: "Ten years of research and innovation in healthcare represents, among other things, ten years of learning and adapting to the new challenges that modern biomedicine brings. I am pleased that we have managed to introduce several – already beneficial – changes in the past year. I would mention the implementation of an innovative evaluation process in the 'VES 2024', or the organisational integrity of the agenda concerning the involvement of Czech scientists in the European Partnerships in Health, which may lead to an increase in the Czech Republic's competitiveness in the international research area. This should also be helped by the use of exclusively foreign referees, which we are going to introduce in evaluation project proposals already in this year's call for proposals."

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