BIOCEV is a scientific centre of excellence in biotechnology and biomedicine, which aims to detailed study of cellular mechanisms at the molecular level, research and development of novel therapeutic strategies, early diagnostics, biologically active agents including chemo-therapeutics, protein engineering and other technologies. Endowed with superb instruments and equipment, BIOCEV brings together enthusiastic teams of well-trained scientists from six institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences and two faculties of the Charles University. Implementation of complex projects requires a high-quality methodological basis concentrated in the six state-of-the-art research infrastructures and core facilities. All are open to external users to provide them with research services.