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

Stanislaw Dunin-Horkawicz, Katarzyna Misztal, Irina Tuszyńska, Małgorzata Figiel and Maria Werner were awarded with stipends for young researchers given by Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) under the START Programme.

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

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

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).

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.

Dr. Marcin Nowotny, Head of Laboratory of Protein Structure, is one of 28 laureates of prestigious International Early Career (IECS) award granted by Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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.

Grzegorz Chojnowski, Stanisław Dunin-Horkawicz, Katarzyna Kamińska, Irina Tuszyńska, Grzegorz Łach, Tomasz Waleń form Laboratory of Bioinformatics nad Protein Engineering, Małgorzata Figiel and Marcin Jaciuk form Laboratory of Protein Structure, Monika Sokołowska and Marek Wojciechowski form Laboratory of Structural Biology have received funding from Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the Iuvetus Plus Initiative.