Prof. Jan Lubiński graduated from the Pomeranian Medical Academy (PAM) in Szczecin in 1977 and he still works at this university. There, he obtained the title of specialist in several fields: pathomorphology, clinical genetics, and laboratory medical genetics. He received his doctor of medicine degree in 1980, and his habilitation degree in 1989. He was awarded the Prof. Jan Lubińskiacademic title of professor in 1996. Since 2005, he has been a professor at the Institute of Experimental Biology. M. Nencki PAN in Warsaw. After graduating, he was an assistant at the Department of Pathomorphology of the Polish Medical Academy for 8 years. Then, for 2 years, he was a scholarship holder of the French government at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. After returning from the scholarship, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Cancer Pathology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The scientific achievements of Professor Jan Lubiński, mainly relate to research on hereditary cancers, are as rich as his organizational and implementation achievements. Professor J. Lubiński's studies have been published in prestigious, high-scoring journals from the Philadelphia list, e.g. Nature Genetics, PNAS, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and American Journal of Human Genetics.