The Foundation has a new President. After Prof. Grabski decides to retire, the Foundation Council offers the position of President to Prof. Maciej Żylicz, a molecular biologist and previously head of the Molecular Biology Department at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and member of the FNP Council. At Prof. Żylicz’s request, the new Executive Board is joined by vice-presidents Prof. Włodzimierz Bolecki, literary historian and theoretician, and Dr Tomasz Perkowski, who has worked for the FNP Executive Board since 2001.