On May 23, 2020, preliminary discussion of dissertations of master students who have completed their research at IMBB was held on the Zoom platform. The dissertations of 3 masters in the specialty "Molecular Biology" on the Azerbaijani section, 1 on the Russian section, 2 on the specialty "Biochemistry", and 1 on the specialty "Biotechnology" were widely discussed and preliminary assessment was conducted. It was recommended that the masters’ dissertations be released to the main defense because they fully meet the requirements for masters’ dissertations by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan.