Leading Partner Norwegian Partner Polish Partner Polish Partner National Medicines Institute exists since 1951. It is a state owned (Ministry of Health) research based unit whose activity is concerned with medicines control and health protection. It employs ca. 270 employees, among them ca. 90 scientists (10 professors). Scientific research concerns medicines quality and mechanisms of activity, state medicines control as well as reference, consulting and educational activity form the basic platform of the Institute expertise. The Institute activity is interdisciplinary and encloses such fields as pharmacy, pharmacology, chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology, molecular biology, epidemiology and vaccinology. National Medicines Institute is a member of European Network of Official Medicines Control Laboratories (OMCL Network) and collaborates with such organizations as European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) in Strasburg, World Health Organization/Centers for Decease Control and Prevention (WHO/CDC) in Atlanta and Health Protection Agency (HPA) in London.

	Project PNRF –103–AI-1/07 is supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism within Polish-Norwegian Research Fund

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