On 19-20 June 2018, the Nencki Institute hosted a two-day conference entitled „Polish Science Towards EMBL”. The conference was co-organized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It gathered an audience of nearly 170 participants, 14 lecturers and a dozen distinguished guests from Poland and abroad.

On the first day of the conference, the „Nencki-EMBL Symposium on Molecular BioMedicine” was held including 6 scientific lectures and a poster session. The second day of was dedicated to the accession of Poland to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The participants also listened to another 8 scientific lectures.