The Institute’s President, Dr Alicia Maravelia, participated honoris causa, as the invited speaker for the official talk of the inauguration ceremony, in the 10^th Panhellenic Congress for Medical Biochemistry and the 6^th Symposium for Laboratory Haematology and Blood Donation, which was co-organized as a conjugate event in Athens, presenting the topic Medicine in the Times of the Pharaohs, on Thursday 11^th April 2024.