Zagreb, 2 Feb 2010 - Magdalena Grce, PhD, received the prestigious 'Pearl of Wisdom' award for her work in the European Cervical Cancer Association (ECCA) on January 26/27 at a meeting of the European Parliament in Brussels marking the 4th European week for the prevention of cervical cancer.

Magdalena Grce, PhD, is Head of the Laboratory for molecular virology and bacteriology at the Ruđer Bošković Institute which is an institutional member of the ECCA. On January 28 a round table event was held at the Croatian parliament to mark the 4th European week for the prevention of cervical cancer. The event was attended by numerous dignitaries including Magdalena Grce, PhD, Danica Ramljak, PhD, Director General of the RBI.

Zagreb, 26 Jan 2010 - On Saturday, 23 Jan 2010, Croatia’s president-elect Professor Ivo Josipović, PhD, was a guest on a popular music show on Radio Sljeme. In the first part of the show Professor Josipović conversed with the show’s host on the subject of music, while in the second part of the show he answered a series of questions posed by prominent public figures from the fields of culture and science, including Danica Ramljak, PhD, Director General of the Ruđer Bošković Institute.

Zagreb, 22 Jan 2010 - The fourth year in a row Croatia is marking the European Week of Cervical Cancer Prevention in the organization of the European Association against cervical cancer (ECCA), whose member is the Ruđer Bošković Institute as well. The aim of this action, which is being held on 24 - 30 January 2010, is to raise public awareness about cervical cancer and ways of its prevention.

The central event will be the summit of the European Parliament, which will be held on 26 and 27 January in Brussels. Croatia is planning a series of events with educational stands for the public at the Department of Public Health 'Dr. Andrija Štampar' (January 25 at 6:00 p.m.), stands for professional pharmacists in the Croatian Pharmaceutical Company (January 28 at 6:00 p.m.) and officially marking of The Week of Cervical Cancer Prevention at the Croatian Parliament (January 28 at 1:30p.m.).

Zagreb, 12 Jan 2010 - One of the world's leading scientific journals in the field of chemistry, Chemical Communications (IF 5.34) has just published a feature article on Chiral bis (amino acid) - and bis (amino alcohol)-oxalamide gelators. Gelation properties, self-assembly motifs and chirality effects by Prof. Mladen Žinić, PhD and Leo Frkanec, PhD. This extensive paper describes internationally recognized results of fifteen years of research in the RBI Laboratory for Supramolecular and Nucleoside Chemistry and its contribution to supra-molecular chemistry of organic gels and specifically identifying stereo chemical impact on processes of self-assembly of molecules into nano-sized organic threads.

An invitation to a Croatian scientist to write a feature article for the world's top scientific journal is an extremely rare case for the Croatian chemical sciences, and therefore it represents an excellent promotion of chemical research not only at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, but in Croatia as well. Read more...

Zagreb, 23 Dec 2009 - RBI scientists Stjepan Lugomer, PhD and Aleksandar Maksimović, PhD from the Laboratory of Molecular Physics of the Division of Material Physics, in cooperation with their Hungarian colleagues from the Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials science (MFA) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences published the valuable scientific paper on Nanostructuring of a silicon surface by laser redeposition of Si vapor in the prestigious Journal of Applied Physics. In their paper scientists experimentally and theoretically explained the process of forming silicon nanoparticles with IC laser method of redeposition Si-steam. Read more...

Zagreb, 21 Dec 2009 - At the annual meeting of the Croatian Chemical Society, Nikola Basarić, PhD was awarded with the prestigious award 'Leopold Ružička'. This award is given annually to young Croatian scientists for excellence in academic work in the field of chemistry. Read more...