TMI - Institute of Forensic Medicine Mykolas Romeris University
Lithuania
The Institute of Forensic Medicine, Mykolas Romeris University, is a state research institution established in 2001 by the Government’s Resolution No. 369 after having reorganized the State Forensic Medicine Service. It is a budget organization financed by the Government, having subdivisions in five cities and thirteen districts of Lithuania. The main Institute’s activities include research, teaching and expertise which are in a close relationship with one another and complement one another. At present the Institute is carrying on research investigations in the spheres of application of the most recent biotechnologies in creating modern forensic medicine expertise methods, as well as in establishing the causes and time of death by applying specific complex investigations. The Institute is the basis for the preparation of forensic medicine experts – teaching forensic medicine specialists – post-graduates, as well as the basis for a continuous forensic medicine specialists’ training and qualification improvement. The Institute’s activities also include expertal work – at the legal institutions’ request the Institute’s experts perform investigations of the alive and dead persons, identification-related, DNA and serological investigations, toxicological investigations in detecting and identification of alcohol, psychoactive substances in the biological mediums (blood, urine, etc.), complex investigations with forensic experts in the cases of gunshot injuries and transport traumas. In 2004 the Institute’s forensic medicine experts have performed 25,559 expertises of alive and 9,488 expertises of dead people, the Toxicology laboratory - 19,164 examinations for blood and alcohol, 8,966 examinations for blood in post-mortem cases, 1,728 examinations for drugs, the number of serological and DNA cases equals to 2,180.
The Institute participates in several international research-related projects, has established partnership with colleagues from Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Germany (Muenster, Muenchen), Poland (Wroclaw, Krakow), Finland (Helsinki, Turku), Italy, Great Britain, Tunisia, etc., as well as Forensic Expertise Center of Lithuania, Police Department, Criminalistic Investigation Department and other relative state institutions. Exchanging experience, forensic specialists’ training, sharing the newest information on methodological issues, common projects, international conferences and seminars are among many spheres of our international cooperation.