We had 28 distinguished speakers (5 from Poland) from leading institutions engaged in brain tumor studies and therapy: University of Huston MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, University of San Franscisco, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA; Weizman Institute, Israel; University of Bergen, Norway; Max Delbruck Center, Germany; University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany; International Agency for Research on Cancer, France. Please have a look at the conference website www.braintumors2012.pl for more details. Online registration and abstract submission is open. A registration fee is waived for scientists and PhD from the Nencki Institute.