20 th Annual Meeting,Brno, Czech Republic Dear friends! On behalf of the European Society of Pediatric Clinical research (ES-PCR, previously known as Pediatric Research of Central European Countries) we are pleased to invite you to register for 20th Annual Meeting. The Society was conceived almost two decades ago to bring together faculty members and their younger colleagues interested in pediatric clinical research. The idea was very successful, with new contacts and common research programs initiated. Two years ago, during the meeting in Innsbruck the working group decided to transform itself by establishing the European Society of Pediatric Clinical Research. The Jubilee 20th Annual meeting of ES-PCR is scheduled on July, 1st in Brno under the auspices of the Czech Pediatric Society, The Medical School of Masaryk University Brno. Arrival is expected Thursday, June 30th , afternoon. Research groups from pediatric departments in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Czech Republic are kindly invited to present scientific results of their recent pediatric research. Symposium is composed from oral presentations, ten minutes each, followed by 10 minutes for discussion, and separate poster session. Official language of the ESPR meeting is English. No simultaneous translation is provided. We look forward to welcome you in Brno, the place, where Johann Gregor Mendel, Viktor Kaplan and Leoš Janacek lived and worked. Brno (http://www2.brno.cz/index.php?lan=en) is the second largest city in Czech Republic and is full of historical and cultural treasures. The venue for the meeting and accommodation is in National Health Sciences Centre (NCONZO) Vinarska street No 6. Remarkably, it is in walking distance from the Johan Gregor Mendel Monastery, where we are happy to host official dinner of the meeting Friday July 1st . Looking forward to welcome you to Brno in July ! ………………………………… ………………………………….. Hana Hrstková, M.D., Ph.D Jaroslav Sterba, M.D., Ph.D Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Oncology Vice Dean