A brief report is presented of the results of the Project of the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic that received the Medical Research Award 2008 from the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic (http://www.mzcr.cz/Odbornik/Pages/816-udeleni-ceny-ministra-zdravotnictvi-pro-rok-2008.html). The Science Council of the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic selected 5 award winners of 16 candidate projects recommended by the Specialty Commissions of the Internal Grant Agency. The winning project: Study of hypervirulent complexes of Neisseria meningitidis by molecular biological methods and preventive potential of vaccination against these complexes in the Czech Republic.