We are still searching for brilliant group leaders to join us. New competitions for group leader positions were announced in Nature, therefore opening the Institute's door for successful post-doctoral fellows in the field of molecular biology for cancer, neurobiology and/or immunology, who plan to begin their independent careers. For the first time in the Institute's history, we have arrived at the point of formally evaluating those who started their research about several years ago.
Our staff has been involved in the organisation of several meetings, workshops and courses. We are active in the education with a handful of PhD students working on their theses, hosting major events of the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine and various courses on molecular biology techniques. In addition, we consider the popularisation of science for lay public a serious and important matter. Together, with two other institutes of the Polish Academy of Science (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology and the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics) and the Warsaw Festival of Science, we have organised a School of Science Festival, which under our very own roof regularly organises courses and lectures for young people and biology teachers who are interested in modern biology.
We are getting older, but we are constantly striving to keep our enthusiasm for the realisation of the main Institute's goals, namely: high quality research, the creation of the best possible conditions for ambitious, motivated group leaders and their staff, as well as the education and popularisation of molecular medicine and human genetics. With the continual assistance and support from the members of the International Advisory Board and from other friends in Poland and abroad, the Institute has the opportunity of becoming a leading institution in basic molecular and cell biology research.