The Global Young Academy,Women in Science Working Group have published a book Motherhood in Science – How children change our academic careers. This publication sheds light on the challenges of motherhood in the science sphere and academia, ranging from biased working environments and cultural and traditional expectations, to underdeveloped or missing support systems and feelings of self-guilt in a working parent.

The Ivan Đaja Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Physiology, carried out at institutes and universities in Serbia, and defended during 2019/2020 was presented to Dr. Marija Jakovljević, from the Department of Neurobiology at IBISS, for his thesis entitled "The role of purinergic signaling in neuroinflammation and demyelination – implications for multiple sclerosis". The PhD thesis was performed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, under the supervision of Dr. Irena Lavrnja and Dr. Danijela Laketa.

6th European Congress of Immunology ECI2021 is scheduled for September 1st-4th 2021. Venue of the congress is Sava Center, Belgrade. The scientific program of the congress will be available soon.

The publishing house Elsevier has issued the first edition of the book Biodiversity and Biomedicine: Our Future, edited by Prof. Munir Ozturk, Dr. Dilfuza Egamberdieva, and Dr. Milica Pešić. Biodiversity and Biomedicine: Our Future provides a new outlook on Earth’s animal, plant, and fungi species as vital sources for human health treatments. Written by leading biodiversity and biomedical experts, the book discusses the human health benefits of biologically active compounds from natural resources, and how the threatened presence of these species must be reversed to conserve biodiversity.