Professor Simon M. Amentamey, Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Animal Imaging Center - PET, ETH in Zurich and Professor Leonardo A. Scapozza, Pharmaceutical Biochemistry / Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie Thérapeutique, Section des Sciences pharmaceutiques, University of Geneva will held lectures at the Ruđer Bošković Institute on Tuesday, May 18th 2010, at 4 pm, Lecture hall, Wing III, Bijenička 54, Zagreb.

At the 180th conference of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, held on May 5 2010 in Budapest, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Professor József Palinkas awarded Dr. Karolj Skala, RBI's head of the Center for Informatics and Computing with a medal for scientific research and international cooperation.

A delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister for Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia Božidar Đelić visited the Ruđer Bošković Institute today.

As a part of the activities marking the 60th Anniversary of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Dr. Marin Soljačić will hold a lecture entitled Photonic Crystals: When the Only Limit is Imagination. This lecture is being held at the invitation of RBI Director-General Dr. Danica Ramljak on May 19th at 11:00 am in the Lecture hall in Wing III, RBI, Bijenička 54, Zagreb.

RBI scientists Fran Supek and Dr. Tomislav Šmuc from the Computational biology and informatics group, Division of Electronics have published a research article entitled On Relevance of Codon Usage to Expression of Synthetic and Natural Genes in Escherichia coli in the prestigious journal Genetics, a publication of the Genetics Society of America.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) invites you to attend the night under the stars at the "Ruđer" event, which will be held on Friday, May 14 2010, starting at 6:00 pm, at the RBI, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb. The event is organized within the activities to mark the 60th Anniversary of the RBI.

For the fourth year in a row an Open House at the Ruđer Bošković Institute was held from May 6th to 8th. This years event attracted over 4500 visitors, not only from Zagreb County and Zagreb, but also from all over Croatia and neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Joseph Schlessinger, PhD, member of the RBI International Scientific Board, will receive the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research for elucidating the mechanism of action of receptor tyrosine kinases and their intracellular signaling pathways which led to discovery of new families of cancer drugs for the treatment of renal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

RBI Director General Dr. Danica Ramljak has left today for a three-day forum organized by the World Bank entitled the Knowledge Economy Forum IX - Diversification Through Knowledge. The forum will be held in Berlin from May 5 to 7, 2010. During her stay in Berlin Dr. Ramljak will meet with the president of the Humboldt Foundation Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz and Croatia’s Ambassador to Germany, Dr. Mijo Kovač.

As part of the series of events celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, RBI will open its doors to the citizens of Zagreb and Croatia for the fourth time during the RBI Open House which will be held from May 6th to 8th, 2010.