In the last week of April, the directors of four NPO Exceles projects – the National Institute for Cancer Research (NICR), the National Institute for Socioeconomic Impact of Disease and Systemic Risk Research (SYRI), the National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology (NIVB) and the National Institute for Neurological Research (NINR) – signed a Memorandum of Mutual Scientific Cooperation. “We want to be useful not only to Czech science and the world around us, but we also want to cooperate effectively, because we have a lot of good things and a lot of problems in common – and ‘it’s better in four’!” says Aleksi Šedo, Director of NICR.