The conference covers all aspects of biological inorganic chemistry, including metals in medicine – therapeutic and diagnostic agents, bioinspired catalysis, biomimetic systems, metal trafficking, metals and oxidative stress, metals and nucleic acids – chemical and biological aspects, metal-based environmental chemistry, metal related diseases, metals and neurodegeneration, computational aspects and metal containing molecules, chemical bioinformatics, metals – light and life, metalloproteins, structure-function correlation in metal containing biomolecules, bioinspired coordination chemistry and other hot topics.