For a second time in the last five years both our Institute of Immunology and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics were evaluated as top of the list, "Excellent" research Institutes in Greece.

October 24, 2005: A recent review by an international committee set up by the Greek Government to assess the status of all Greek Research Institutes awarded both the Institute of Immunology and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics the status of “excellence in biomedical research”. This is the second time in a row that both Institutes of the Fleming Research Centre are recognised as ‘examples of successful investment in a competitive field’. The two Institutes were awarded a similar status of excellence in the round of evaluations performed in year 2000. The current successful evaluation translates also into a grant award of an overall amount of 1.678.013 €.

Concerning maintenance and further development of Excellence in our Center, the evaluation committee made the following recommendations to the Greek Government:

• We believe the Center should have 4-5 programs and sufficient critical mass to remain internationally competitive.

• We propose that resources are immediately provided for recruitment, equipment and expansion of new programs.

• The animal facility is large and competently supervised. This animal facility can very well form a national core for recombinant mice and even be expanded further

• We propose that the Biomedical Science Research Center ‘Alexander Fleming’ makes detailed plans for expansion in existing facilities and even provide long term goals all the way to establishing an International Center of Excellence.