Regional biophysics conference 2012: An anniversary and a milestone for applications of biophysics in medicine

摘要

This issue of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) presents a series of articles from the Regional Biophysics Conference (RBC) organized in Kladovo, Serbia on September 3-7, 2012. This was the fifth conference in the RBC series, a small but notable anniversary. In the opening speech, Dr Marjeta Sentjurc, the veteran biophysicist from the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, focused on the development of the RBC initiative starting from the first meeting in Zrece, Slovenia in 2005. She pointed out that this initiative was a continuation of and an upgrade to the previous Yugoslav Biophysical Society (YBS) meetings, which were traditionally organized each year for more than 40 years -since November 1970. In fact, the initiative for establishing an organization that would gather researchers from the field of biophysics was announced already in 1966 at the Board of the Federal Council for the Coordination of Scientific research, which allocated some funds to the Institute of Physics of the School of Natural Sciences University of Belgrade, Serbia for this purpose. Director of the Institute, Prof.