ISBER: Best Practices for Repositories and Trends at the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Medicine

1 WITH THIS ISSUE the Journal begins a partnership with the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology & Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, which entails the publication of the abstracts from the annual conference of young scientists. The conference, traditionally titled “Cold in Biology and Medicine,” features the work of post-graduate students and young scientists from a diversity of regional institutions. The two-day conference is held mutually with the UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology, and the reports are published in the Problems of Cryobiology journal. The Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine was organized in 1972 with two laboratories, the Institute of Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Research and Development Laboratory for Low Temperature Preservation of Bone Marrow and Blood at Kharkov Institute for Physicians Advanced Training. The Institute is structured uniquely to integrate both the physical and biological aspects of low temperature biology. The Institute is the largest in the world focused on “problems in cryobiology and cryomedicine.” It has a staff of 326, including 19 doctors of sciences and 116 candidates of sciences. Dr. Valentin I. Grischenko of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine is the head of the Institute. The major research interests of the varied scientific departments of the Institute include: