Recognition at scientific events

The priority of Gheorghe Benga in the discovery of the first water channel protein from the human red blood cell membrane a few years before Peter Agre and the regretable mistake of Gheorghe Benga's omission from the group of 2003 Nobel laureates in Chemistry was acknowledged at several scientific events:

1. The 8^th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and 6th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, october 16-18, 2003;

2. Days of the "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, December 3-7, 2003);

3. The 9^th Cluj-Napoca International Symposium of Molecular Medicine, Society and Public Health, Celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Victor Babes, the 25^th anniversary of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology of the "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy and of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Cluj County Hospital and the 60^th birthday of Professor Gheorghe Benga (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, April 23-25, 2004);

4. "Ziua Medicamentului", "Gr. T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iassy (Iassy, Romania, April 29-30, 2004);

5. The 10^th Cluj-Napoca International Symposium of Molecular Medicine, Society and Public Health, Celebrating Professor Claude Matasa (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 24, 2004);

6. The 3^rd Congress of The Academy of Scientists from Romania (Constantza, Romania, June 1-4, 2004);

7. The 9^th National Congress of The Romanian Society of Physiological Sciences (Timisoara, Romania, June 3-5, 2004);

8. The 5^th Congress of The National Therapeutical Farmacology and Clinical Toxicology (C9limanesti-Caciulata, Romania, June 9-12, 2004);

9. Minisymposium: "Discovery of aquapoprins", at The 22^th Annual Scientific Session of The Romanian Society of Cell Biology (Sighisoara, Romania, June 10-13, 2004);

10. Days of Cluj Branch of Romanian Academy (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 24 - June 12, 2004);

11. Symposium Celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Victor Babes, "Babes-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 25-26, 2004);

12. Bioinformatics and Genome Based Medicine (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 27 - July 7, 2004);

13. The 12^th Meeting of Balkan Clinical Laboratory Federation (Neptun, Romania, September 15 - 17, 2004);

14. 28^eme Semaine te l'Union Medicale Balkanique et 7^eme Congres te l'Entente Medicale Mediteranne (Oradea, Romania, September 16 - 19, 2004)

15. Advanced Spectroscopies on Biomedical and Nanostructured Systems (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 19 - 22, 2004);

16. The 14^th National Conference of Hematology (Bucharest, Romania, September 23 - 24, 2004);

17. The 9^th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and The 7^th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine (Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 14 - 16, 2004);

18. The 6^th International Symposium on Metal Elements in Environment, Medicine and Biology (Timisoara, Romania, November 8 - 10, 2004);

19. The 3^rd National Congress of the Romanian Federation of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases (Arad, Romania, November 10 - 12, 2004);

20. Symposium of the Romanian Society of Laboratory Medicine (Cluj -Napoca, Romania, November, 18 - 21, 2004);

21. "Medicalis" Students' Scientific Conference in "The Week of Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca" (Romania, December 6 - 10, 2004);

22. The 1st OUTNOBEL SYMPOSIUM (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, December 10, 2004);

23. "Victor Babes Colloquium" (National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece, December 17, 2004);

24. "Acad. Nicolae Cajal" Commemorative Symposium (Bucharest, Romania, March 29, 2005);

25. 9^th World Multi - Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (Orlando, Florida, USA, July 10 - 13, 2005);

26. 1^st International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Tehran, Iran, September 11 - 15, 2005);

27. 14^th Romanian International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Bucharest, Romania, September 22 - 24 ,2005);

28. 2^nd International Danubian Symposium of Laboratory Medicine (Arad, Romania, September 22 - 24, 2005).

A Memorandum was adopted by signature of participants.