Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

In difficult times for Ukraine, provoked by the Russian invasion, we are working on the scientific and information front. In the Journal “Nature Aging” a letter to the Editor entitled “Battlefields for research in Ukraine” is published by our docent read more

Docent Dmytro Gospodaryov was interviewed by Vivien Marx, journalist, science blogger and technology and news editor of Nature Methods, talking about life in our laboratory after the large-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine. https://share.transistor.fm/s/33d098ca

For three months, Alina Zayachkivska, a master’s student at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, underwent a research internship at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (Saarbrücken, Germany). The trip took place within the framework of the received grant read more

We congratulate Professor Volodymyr Lushchak and docent Dmytro Gospodaryov with the publication of the review article “Oxidative Stress and Energy Metabolism in the Brain: Midlife as a Turning Point” co-authored by them along with colleagues from the Institute of Physiology read more

Recently, scientists of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Professor Maria Bailyak and Olga Strilbytska, Ph.D., became the winners of the Small Research Grant Application (2021) program from the US-Ukraine Foundation Biotech Initiative. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) is a non-governmental read more

Short information on successes and achievements of our Department in 2020

At October 15, 2020 European Cooperation Day was celebrated.  A dedicated webinar was held as part of the celebration. The webinar spreaded the information about European Cooperation, its achievements, history, and purpose, as well as activities being made to increase read more

Our students and teachers involved in the mouse tissue collection and extraction procedures

The results of the competition for students of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University to receive scholarships from the Foundation Institute for Eastern Studies (Warsaw, Poland) have been announced. Among the fellows there are two students of the Department of read more

Today, for the first time in our laboratory, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed. The technique was tested on mutant lines of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The whole procedure was conducted under the guidance of Associate Professor Dmytro Gospodaryov. Maria read more