The first day of the combined 20th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering (NBC 2025) and the 24th Polish Conference on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (PCBBE 2025) is behind us.

The opening ceremony also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The assembled participants of the conference were welcomed by the Director of the IBIB of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Piotr Ładyżyński, PhD. The Director recalled the idea and genesis of the Institute's establishment and what evolution it has undergone over the years.
Then the speakers:

Prof. Marek Darowski -  President of the Polish Society for Biomedical Engineering,
Prof. dr hab. inż. Marek Gzik – Vice Minister of Science and Higher Education
Prof. dr hab. inż. Adam Liebert - Chairman of the Committee on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Prof. dr hab. inż. Natalia Sobczak - Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
as well as guests from the Hall.

They expressed their thanks and congratulations to the Director, Professor Piotr Ładyżyński.

Among other things, they mentioned the many years of interdisciplinary cooperation and the important contribution of the Institute to the development of Biomedical Engineering in Poland over the years, and wished success for the next 50 years.

fot. Grzegorz Krzyżewski