With the aim of stimulating the exchange of ideas and fostering greater cooperation between Croatia and those countries who see science and education as the basis for development of high technologies and spearheading economic growth, the Rudjer Boskovic Institute begins a new project entitled The Rudjer Boskovic Institute Embassy Series. This series of lectures by accredited ambassadors in the Republic of Croatia will be held once a month in the auditorium of the Croatian Chamber of Economy in Zagreb and will be open to all members of the academic, business and diplomatic communities as well as to the general public.

The National Department for Intellectual Property in the Republic of Croatia granted a patent entitled "Synthetic peptides containing unnatural adamantane related amino acids for use as antitumor drugs" (no. P20050242) on September 4th, 2010. The patent was granted to several investigators including RBI scientists Dr. Štefica Horvat, Dr. Kata Majerski, Dr. Andreja Jakas and Dr. Jelena Veljković.

At the recently held ceremonial sitting of the Croatian parliament marking Croatian Independence day 31 state awards for science in 2009 were conferred by the Minister of Science, Education and Sport Dr. Radovan Fuchs. Dr. Morana Jaganjac, a graduate student at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, received the award in the graduate student category.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) invites you to attend the "Night Under the Stars" event which will be held October 15th beginning at 18:00, at the RBI campus Bijenička 54, Zagreb.

A new sputtering ion source worth 200000€ has been commissioned at the RBI accelerator facility. This ion source will serve as injector to the 6 MV Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator and will contribute to the better transmission of ion beams through the system as well as enhance the number of ion species that will be possible to accelerate in the facility.

The RBI Center for Informatics and Computer Science has put forth an initiative to create a national virtual organization ADRIA-METEO with the aim to foster cooperation in the development of systems for atmospheric forecasts in the Adriatic region using state of the art eScience platforms. Potential members of the consortium include the Centre for Informatics and Computer Science (RBI), the Department for Marine and Environmental Research (RBI), the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science (Zagreb), the National Hydrometeorological Department and the Croatian Hydrographic Institute.

The National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technology (NZZ) in the Republic of Croatia through its institutional support program will finance two projects headed by RBI scientists with over 2 million kuna in funding.

Snježana Jurić has received yet another award for her research. At the yearly meeting of the Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology held recently in Opatija as part of the conference entitled The Secret Life of Molecules, Snježana Jurić was awarded a prize for the best scientific article in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology published in 2009.

Dr. Danica Ramljak, Director General of the RBI will be in Helsinki from October 4-6 together with Croatian business leaders as a member of the official delegation to Finland led by Croatia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Mr. Gordan Jandroković.

RBI scientists, Irena Dokli, and dr. Zdenko Hameršak in the Laboratory for Stereoselective Catalysis and Biocatalysis, in collaboration with dr. Ivana Matanović in the Theoretical Chemistry Group, have published an article entitled Sulfur Ylide Promoted Synthesis of N-Protected Aziridines: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach in Chemistry-A European Journal (IF=5.382).