The Department of Biomedical Research of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology – Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH-IMBB-BR) participates in the SMARTool project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program with approximately € 5 M. The project started on January 2016 and is currently on month 37, from a total duration of 42 months.

Dr. Vassilis Charmandaris, Professor of Observational Astrophysics at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Crete and Associated Researcher of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH, was elected Director of the Institute of Astrophysics (IA) of FORTH on January 22, 2019.

ORamaVR, spin-off of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), participated in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019), the world's largest Innovation Fair, held in Las Vegas on 8-11 January.

The Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas establishes its 8th Institute, the Institute of Petroleum Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Crete. The new Institute will be located in Chania, on premises granted by the Technical University of Crete

Nektarios Tavernarakis, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), and Professor at the Medical School of the University of Crete was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, January 2019: Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, Professor, from Ioannina, Greece has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to modelling and machine learning in biomedical data processing.

Vassilis Charmandaris, a Professor of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete and Associated Researcher of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH, has been appointed a member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute of Earth Sciences and Astronomy, INSU, http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/en/node/4722) of France for the five-year period 2019-2024.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis and the Chairman of Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEH) Mr. Manolis Alifierakis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday, December 28, 2018.

Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, a Research Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of FORTH, is the recipient of the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The official award ceremony will take place in Bamberg, Germany 28-31 March 2019.

Dimitrios G. Katehakis, Dr. Angelina Kouroubali and Ioannis Karatzanis, members of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) are the winners of the International Slide Wiki open courseware competition for the creation of the original educational course entitled "Interoperability in eHealth".