The Biology Centre CAS has been actively involved in the fight against COVID-19 since the very beginning of the pandemic. During more than a year of its duration, BC has extensive experience with this virus, its diagnostics and procedures preventing its spread. The initial testing of patient samples from South Bohemian hospitals by PCR was soon followed by research projects, one of which resulted in the latest utility model, the so-called "small patent", registered under the heading BC.
Thanks to the support of TAČR, colleagues from the BC Institute of Parasitology - Mgr. Jan Perner, Ph.D., Bc. Tereza Hatalová, Mgr. Václav Hönig, Ph.D., RNDr. Martin Palus, Ph.D., RNDr. Radek Šíma, Ph.D. - were involved in a project under the internal GAMA 2 grant call to develop a rapid and universal diagnostic for this virus that would be independent of specialized equipment and personnel while providing similar robustness to existing established laboratory molecular biology methods. The result of their joint scientific work is “Primers for amplification control for detecting coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by isothermal amplification LAMP and kit for detecting coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by isothermal amplification LAMP”. The inventors of this solution, together with the team of the Technology Transfer Office, are currently communicating intensively with partners from the application sphere regarding the possibilities of ensuring IVD certification and applying this diagnostic in practice. On behalf of the entire team of the Technology Transfer Office, we congratulate the inventors on obtaining industrial legal protection of research and development results and look forward to further cooperation in their transfer into practice.
link to the IPO database:
https://isdv.upv.cz/webapp/resdb.print_detail.det?pspis=PUV/38858&plang=EN
