Internationalization of University education and promotion of biomedical research are the key priorities of participating universities. Thus, in organising this Annual School in Biomedical Sciences the partner universities join their efforts for establishing productive collaborative platform aiming:

• to introduce our students to modern trends and recent major developments in Biomedical research, with important focus on “from theory to practice”;

• to facilitate exchange in best international practices of university education;

• to allow our students to experience the excellence and long traditions of university education in the United Kingdom and in the USA;

• to improve practice of lectures in English and to develop English skills of students at the Educational and Scientific Centre “Institute of Biology” of Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University.

This will undoubtedly contribute to further development of educational, scientific and cultural links between the Ukraine, the United Kingdom and other countries.