Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences

DEAR CHAIRPERSONS, DEAR PARTICIPANTS OF THE 4TH CENTRAL EUROPEAN BIOMEDICAL CONGRESS,

The Organizing Committee of 4^th CEBC
regretfully inform you about
cancellation of this congress planned for 19-22 May 2020.

This decision has been reached as an act of precaution against development of coronavirus (COVID-19). The health and safety of all of you constitute our top priority.

The new date of the 4^th CEBC congress is announced for 4-8 June 2021.

Welcome Address

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We closely monitored the development related to COVID-19 and in the light of the update, we decided to postpone the 4^th Central European Biomedical Congress (CEBC) to 4-8 June 2021. Motto 4. CEBC remains valid and reads: The Impact of bioinformatics and omics on biology and medicine.

We apologize for the inconvenience but your safety is our utmost priority.

This congress is jointly organized by the Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College.

Through a series of plenary lectures, oral sessions, poster sessions and workshops, industry-sponsored symposia and exhibitions, 4^th CEBC will provide new information about use of the latest advances in biological and medical sciences, novel technogies such as “multi-omics”, mobile applications, augmented reality and neural networks.

The Congress also will promote outstanding opportunities for junior scientists to present research and interact with leaders in the field, including awardees of European Research Council grants.

Adopting a highly multidisciplinary approach, the Congress aims to draw an attendance of clinicians, physicians, pharmacologists, biologists, bioinformaticians and chemists, sharing the common goal to promote international scientific cooperation and to exchange of ideas and concepts.

We are convinced the Congress will be a memorable event because Krakow, is one of the most important historical, cultural and touristic centers of Poland and Central Europe.

Once again we would like to cordially invite to join us at the 4^th Central European Biomedical Congress, and we look forward to welcoming you in Krakow in 2021!

We hope everybody stays safe and look forward to seeing you on the new event date!

Best regards,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Małgorzata Filip

Maj Institute of Pharmacology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Krakow

Joanna Pera

Faculty of Medicine
Jagiellonian University, College Medicine
Krakow

About the Event

CEBC 2021 is dedicated to: clinicians, physicians, pharmacologists, biologists, bioinformaticians and chemists.

Plenary Speakers

The outstanding plenary speakers have confirmed their participation in the Congress:

Prof. David E. Nichols - Purdue University College of Pharmacy, West Lafayette, LA, USA

Plenary lecture: Psychedelic Research in the 21st Century
Prof. Francesco Pavone - European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy

Inaugural lecture: Human brain optical mapping
Prof. Francesco Battaglia - the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Plenary lecture: The lifetime of memories: processing and reprocessing of information in the brain
Prof. Jacek R. Wiśniewski - Research Department Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Plenary lecture: Large scale proteomics for understanding biological systems

Check Program

Sessions

Session 1: Covid-19 pandemic

Chair: Marek Sanak (Poland)

Session 2: Chem- and bioinformatics in drug design

Chair: Andrzej Bojarski (Poland)

Session 3: Clinical genomics

Chair: Michał Korostyński, Michał Dąbrowski (Poland)

Session 4: Discovery of biomarkers in mental disorders

Chair: Bernadeta Szewczyk (Poland), Andreas Grabrucker (Ireland)

Session 5: Presentations from ERC grant awardees

Chair: Jan Manuel Rodriguez Parkitna (Poland)

Session 6: Perspectives for therapy of treatment-resistant depression

Chair: Mariusz Papp (Poland)

Session 7: Neuroimaging – beyond the structure

Chair: Joanna Pera, Tadeusz Marek (Poland)

Session 8: The role of serotonin in neurodevelopmental disorders

Chair: Agnieszka Nikiforuk, Piotr Popik (Poland)

Session 9: Biological context of bipolar disorder

Chair: Dominika Dudek (Poland)

Session 10: Computational personalised medicine

Chair: TBA

Session 11: Genes affect your risk for addiction

Chair: Małgorzata Frankowska, Irena Smaga-Maślanka (Poland)

Session 12: Novel views on psychoactive and additive drugs

Chair: Krystyna Gołembiowska (Poland), Kathryn A. Cunningham (USA)

Session 13: Endocannabinoid signaling in health and disease

Chair: Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak (Poland)

Session 14: Young Scientific Investigators' Session

Chair: Karolina Noworyta-Sokołowska, Rafał Ryguła (Poland)

Exhibition packages

Gold 15 000 PLN	Silver 10 000 PLN	Bronze 5 000 PLN
Benefits:	Benefits:	Benefits:
Large stand (13 - 20 m²)	Medium stand (7 - 12 m²)	Small stand (6 m²)
Promotional materials added to the congress bag and other congress materials Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website Two promotional poster-type displays in the Congress venue (in coordination with the organizer) Four tickets to the social program (including the reception, lunches and the Congress dinner)	Promotional materials added to the congress bag and other congress materials Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website One promotional poster-type displays in the Congress venue (in coordination with the organizer) Three tickets to the social program (including the reception, lunches and Congress dinner)	Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website Two tickets to the social program (including reception and lunches) Two tickets to the Congress dinner

^* Please note that VAT tax should be settled in the country where your company is registered.

Sponsoring packages

Gold 10 000 PLN	Silver 6 000 PLN	Bronze 4 000 PLN
Benefits:	Benefits:	Benefits:
Promotional materials added to the congress bag and other congress materials Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website Three tickets to the social program (including the reception, lunches and Congress dinner)	Promotional materials added to the congress bag and other congress materials Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website Two tickets to the social program (including the reception, lunches and Congress dinner)	Logo presentation prior to and at the end of the lecture and during the breaks (Power Point) Company logo on the program Company logo on the congress website One tickets to the social program (including the reception, lunches and Congress dinner)

^* Please note that VAT tax should be settled in the country where your company is registered.

Scientific Committee

Name	Institution	Country
Andrzej Bojarski	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Lucia Caffino	Università degli Studi di Milano Milano	Italy
Michał Dąbrowski	Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw	Poland
Dominika Dudek	Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow	Poland
Małgorzata Filip	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Małgorzata Frankowska	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Andreas Grabrucker	Andreas Grabrucker University of Limerick Limerick	Ireland
Martin Kaczocha	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook New York	US
Beat Lutz	University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Mainz	Germany
Irena Nalepa	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Agnieszka Nikiforuk	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Rafał Olszanecki	Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow	Poland
Mariusz Papp	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Jan Rodriguez Parkitna	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Joanna Pera	Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow	Poland
Piotr Popik	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Edmund Przegaliński	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Irena Smaga-Maślanka	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland
Bernadeta Szewczyk	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences Krakow	Poland

Organizing Committee

This congress is organized by the Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the Faculty of Medicine Jagiellonian University Medical College.

The remaining organizers

Name	Function	Institution	Country
Małgorzata Frankowska, Ph.D. frankow@if-pan.krakow.pl	Company Exhibition, Sponsors	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Irena Smaga-Maślanka, Ph.D smaga@if-pan.krakow.pl	Public Relations	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Dawid Gawliński, MSC gawlin@if-pan.krakow.pl	Media	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Karolina Wydra, Ph.D pub.cebc@if-pan.krakow.pl	Publications	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Agata Faron–Górecka, Pd.D pub.cebc@if-pan.krakow.pl	Publications	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Agata Suder suder@if-pan.krakow.pl	General Secretarial Duties	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Kamila Piotrowska, MSc piotrow@if-pan.krakow.pl	Guest Speaker	Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences	Poland
Łukasz Bieńkowski, MSc lukasz.bienkowski@uj.edu.pl	Website Administrator	Jagiellonian University	Poland

Patronage

Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Honorary Patronage

We are very pleased to announce that following persons took the honorary patronage over the 4^th Central European Biomedical Congress: