Zagreb, 16 Mar 2010 - A commemoration in honor of our dearly departed colleague, Professor Greta Pifat-Mrzljak, was held today at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Together with many dignitaries and scientists the ceremony featured contributions from the General Director of the RBI, Danica Ramljak, PhD, the Rector of the University of Zagreb, Dr. Aleksa Bjeliš, the Director of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystem research in Austria, Professor Peter Laggner, the Austrian Ambassador to Croatia and Mr. Jan Kickert. Professor Robert Huber a Nobel Prize winner from the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, attended the commemoration as well. Read more...

Zagreb, 5 Mar 2010 – RBI Scientists Anamaria Brozović, PhD, Andreja Ambriović-Ristov, PhD, and Maja Osmak, PhD, from the Laboratory for Genotoxic Agents, Department of Molecular Biology have published a review article entitled The relationship between cisplatin-induced reactive oxygen species, glutathione, and BCL-2 and resistance to cisplatin (IF 7,204) in the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology, which is one of the most respected journals in the field of toxicology. Read more...

Zagreb, 1 Mar 2010 - As a part of activities regarding the International Rare Disease Day (Feb 28) at the 'Tribine grada Zagreba' today was held a round table under the name Rare diseases in Croatia: On the threshold of European changes. At the roundtable, which brought together medical experts, representatives of associations and patients, Danica Ramljak, PhD, director of RBI participated as well. There were discussed problems which face people with the rear diseases in Croatia - from the science researchs to diagnosis, treatments and socialization.

Zagreb, 26 Feb 2010 - RBI scientists Neda Slade, PhD, and Arijana Zorić, PhD, from the Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Department of Molecular Medicine in collaboration with colleagues from the Medical Faculty at Innsbruck and the Medical School in Vienna published an article in the prestigious journal Oncogene. Their work is the result of successful cooperation on the Croatian-Austrian bilateral project 'The importance of dominant negative izoforms p73 for the sensitivity to chemo therapeutics'. Read more...

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, 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...