The State Forensic Medicine Service under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania is an institution administered by the Ministry of Justice and established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (Resolution No. 1719 of December 16, 2009). Its basic tasks involve performance of medicolegal examinations and investigations at the court, prosecution and pre-trial investigation institutions‘ request, as well as at individual and legal persons‘ request; implementation of new investigation methods into expertal practice; fundamental and applied research and methodical activities in the sphere of forensic medicine.

	Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Lectures of professors from Copenhagen and Southern Denmark (Odense) universities (Denmark) at the Institute of Forensic Medicine On the 23rd of November and from the 30th of November till the 2nd of December, 2009 the invited lecturers from Denmark - Professor Niels Morling (University of Copenhagen) and Professor Jorgen Lange (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) will present a course of lectures for forensic medicine specialists on the topics of serology, DNA and thanatology. Everybody interested in the course is welcome. Read more
	International Baltic Archeology Meeting „Bioarcheology and Forensic Anthropology“ On August 23 – 26, 2009 Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Forensic Medicine hosts an international Baltic archeology meeting „Bioarcheology and Forensic Anthropology“. The scientific conference will involve discussions on the issues of skeletal tissues biology and applied anthropology: forensic anthropology, identification, chemical and DNA analysis of sceletal tissues, palaeodemography and palaeopathology, populations analyses. Researchers from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland and Denmark will participate in the conference. The conference is supported by Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture. Read more
	Forensic Medicine has flourished in Lithuania almost 500 years Forensic medicine in Lithuania has flourished almost 500 years, but only in the fall of 2008 did Mykolas Romeris University's Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) move into a new, modern building. According to IFM director Alvydas Pauliukevičius, M.D., one of the institute's main objectives is to expand international contacts. Cooperation agreements have been signed with Swiss, German, Polish, Finnish, Italian, universities and forensic institutions. Cooperation was further highlighted last December during an international conference, "Forensic Radiology as the Advanced Tool in Forensic Medical Investigations: Scientific and Practical Experience," held at the Institute. Read more