On Saturday, March 18 th , 2006, Final Seminar of the Centre of Excellence MolMed took place in the Conference Room of the Antalowka in Zakopane, Poland. The Final Seminar was combined with the last Advisory Board Meeting. The Meeting was attended by about 50 persons, with the Advisory Board Members:

• Prof. Jan Albrecht
  (The Institute-Centre of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  
  
• Prof. Herbert Budka
  (Department of Neuropathology, University of Vienna, Austria)
  
  
• Prof. Paul Declerck
  (Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
  
  
• Prof. Klaus Toyka
  (Deptartment of Neurology, University of Wurzburg, Germany), and members of all eleven Workpackage teams.
  
  
• One of the Members of the Centre's Advisory Board - Prof. Maciej Zylicz from International Institute of Cell Biology, Warsaw was unable to attend the meeting.

The meeting was opened by the Director of the Centre, Professor Czeslaw Cierniewski, who welcomed the guests and subsequently conducted the meeting. The first presentation was given by the Administrative Officer -Aneta Andrzejczyk, M.A., who represented the Board of Directors. After a brief introduction, outlining tasks of all Workpackages, she presented the activities and achievements of the accompanying packages, WPs 1, 2, and 9-11, throughout all three years of the Centre's existence.

Results of the activities of the Research Groups (WPs 3-8) were presented by their Leaders or Representatives. The list of speakers and the titles of their research results presentations is given below. The discussion of each of WP activities, in which all Advisory Board Members vividly participated, was conducted by Prof. Cierniewski. Presentations of research results provided ample proof of the existing close co-operation among the researchers of our University and several other biomedical institutes in Poland and several countries in Europe. All the activities and efforts of the Centre were very highly evaluated by all Advisory Board Members, who expressed their satisfaction with the progress achieved by the Centre. The presentation underlined reaching the mission of MolMed and the plan for further activities of the Centre Research Groups. Advisory Board Members provided their suggestions and ideas for further, “post-MolMed” activities.

This very fruitful meeting concluded with an official diner at The Bialy Potok Restaurant in the evening.