Dr Marcin Nowotny head of the Laboratory of Protein Structure is one of the laureates of prestigious ERC grant. He has received founding for his project “Structural studies of Nucleotide Excision Repair complexes”.

Since December 2011 IIMCB participates in the COMBIOM project titled „Strengthening Cooperation in Molecular Biomedicine between EU and Ukraine”, supported by FP7 under activity Integrating Europe's neighbours into the ERA (ERA-WIDE).

On October 5th 2011 in Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology University of Gdańsk - Medical University of Gdańsk, Annex to the Live Sciences and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies agreement from 24th November 2010 was signed.

The new Advisory Board for Molecular Genetic Tests and Biobanking was established at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Professor Janusz M. Bujnicki from Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering was elected a member of the Young Scientists Academy (Akademia Młodych Uczonych), an appendix to the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki, Dr hab. Marta Miączyńska and Prof. Matthias Bochtler received funding under the Maestro program from National Science Centre.

On January 1st 2012, IIMCB initiated a joint Polish-Swiss research project coordinated by Dr. Marta Miączyńska and supported by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.

HEALTH‑PROT Workshop „Summary of scientific results of the project and domestic actions beyond” 26 March 2012, Sopot, Poland

In March the cooperation agreement between our Institute and the Max-Planck Society (MPG) has been finalized and signed by Prof. Peter Gruss, President and Dr. Ludwig Kronthaler, Secretary General of MPG and by Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki, Director and Prof. Michał Witt, Scientific Director of IIMCB