CEITEC (Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic) is a European centre of excellence in the fields of life sciences and advanced materials and technologies, which was established by the most prominent Brno universities (Masaryk University, Brno University of Technology etc.) and research institutes, with the support of the South Moravian Region and the City of Brno. It is an establishment of modern laboratories with state-of-art instrumentation and technologies that will ensure suitable conditions for conducting both basic and applied research.