We are pleased to announce that Prof. Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak, the head of the Department of Computational Biology of Non-coding RNA, was elected a member of the Academy of Young Scientists of the Polish Academy of Sciences. We would like to sincerely congratulate this achievement and wish Prof. Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak a fruitful activity! It is worth remembering that on December 15, Dr. Jacek Kolanowski starts his position of the chairman of the AYS PAS. We can be proud of how our young heads of departments are appreciated on a national scale!