Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS)

Founded in 2003 by Prof Miroslav Radman and Prof Marija Alačević, MedILS is an independently funded, international, non-profit research institute. Led by enthusiastic professionals, we strive to create and sustain a top quality research environment for both international and local exceptional scientists.

MedILS represents an embodiment of founders’ long-lasting initiative to establish an international centre of excellence, leading in the area of life sciences, located in Split, Croatia.

Research endeavours of MedILS are primarily focused on developing highly original, multidisciplinary approaches designed to provide novel insights into the fundamental concepts of molecular organisation and functioning of living organisms. Supported by leading investigators and research institutions in the field of natural sciences, as well as the state-of-the-art technologies acquired from its partner institutions and collaborators, MedILS has already set the scene for an ambitious and highly productive future.

Mission:
MedILS is an international “renaissance” project created as a scientific and social experiment. Its primary goal is to breed a generation of young scientists: creative, multidisciplinary professionals trained to “think the unthinkable” and produce that kind of experiments.

Vision:
MedILS objective is to become a “household” of original intellects with a freedom to doubt and to practice a connective/synthetic thinking in high-risk innovative research.
Best young talents and the most inspiring senior scientific leaders will be invited from all over the world and let free to create a special intellectual culture.
People, not projects, will be selected because we expect the projects to be so original as to be absent from the current global repertoire of projects. The results of the research work in the course of training will be only a welcome byproduct of the primary activity of MedILS.
MedILS will be a place for brain-storm gatherings, meetings and practical courses; a center of excellence in the studies of life and its manifestations, in general the study of complex systems, but no research project will be excluded a priori.