The conference "Accelerating Cancer Research and Innovation in Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures for Europe" offered a insight into how cancer research can transform clinical practice. Director of NICR Aleksi Šedo was among those invited to speak in Brussels, where he presented the activities and objectives of the national institute.

On the last day of March, Kurumi Nishimagi from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, visited the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Architecture at the NICR, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. At her home institution she is involved in research within the Usage of Synchrotron Light for Life Science programme, focusing, among others, on mechanisms of functional regulation of the genome and their application to the control of genomic functions.