Few in the Czech Republic have stood up for the pandemic as the scientists from DIANA Biotechnologies, winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Bohemian Region. They accelerated the work of the laboratories, made life easier for us tested and by all this they gained big money for the development of their other projects.
In 2020, DIANA Biotechnologies entered the PCR diagnostics market and developed and launched highly sensitive PCR tests for covid-19 from saliva in record time. This diagnostic is unique worldwide and has a patent application pending in the USA.
Martin Dienstbier and Václav Navrátil of DIANA Biotechnologies, s.r.o. won the EY Start-up Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021 trophy.