Institute for Problems of Cryobiology & Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine holds the annual conference of young scientists "Cold in Biology and Medicine". The conference is intended to present the works of work of the post-graduate students and young scientists from different biological institutions, as well as university students. Traditionally the conference is held during 2 days mutually with the UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology. The abstracts of the reports are published in the "Problems of Cryobiology" journal. Since 2003 all the presented works are taking part in competition judged by Special Commission of honarable scientists of the Institute.