
Category: News&Events


Scientists of the Department published the article on the effect of a high-calorie diet on the brain
The research on the effects of diet and oxidative stress on mouse behavior is now published in BBA General Subjects. It is part of Mariia Bayliak’s project supported by NRF Ukraine and represents our first work combining RT-qPCR and behavioral read more

10th School of Young Biochemist
On November 24-25, the School of Young Biochemist “Explorers of the Mysteries of the Living” was organized at the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The event was attended by 72 school students from Ivano-Frankivsk, Kalush, Nadvirna, Burshtyn, Horodenka, Vyhoda. The Autumn read more

Our student actively improve their bioinformatics skills in practice
We would like to share successful experience of our student. The exponential growth of biological data has led to the need for computer programs that can quickly process and analyze data. As a result, the combination of biology, computer science, read more

Article by our researchers on the impact of Russian-Ukrainian war on the psychological state of our citizens based on the results of online surveys
The article by Oleh Lushchak and his team in the high-ranked journal The Lancet Regional Health – Europe (IF = 20.9) about Post-traumatic stress disorder is based on an online survey among Ukrainians. The aim of this study was to investigate read more

Review article by our colleagues on the relationship between mitochondrial dysfunction and PTSD
The employees of the Department published a review article “Mitochondrial dysfunction as a possible trigger of neuroinflammation in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” in the highly rated journal Frontiers in Physiology (IF = 4.755). The co-authors of the article were Prof. read more

Biochemistry student Bozhena Luniv joins an international team of researchers at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw
Since the beginning of September, Bozhena Luniv, a master’s student of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, has joined the research team of the Center for Metabolic Diseases at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of read more

Biochemistry student Natalia Nechytailo is doing a research internship abroad
In early September, Nataliшa Nechytailo, a master’s student of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, began a research internship at the International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines (IMoL), Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland) under a grant program from read more

Congratulations to the staff of the Department on receiving the authors’ copy of the book ” Senescence, Senotherapeutics and Mitochondria»!
The printed version of the book “Senescence, Senotherapeutics and Mitochondria” (volume 136 of the book series “Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology”) of the prestigious publisher Elsevier has been issued. The Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology received an authors’ read more

Congratulations to Dr. Volodymyr Lushchak on being awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
On the auspicious occasion of Knowledge Day, September 1, 2023, the Rector of Precarpathian National University, Ihor Tsependa, conferred an honorary academic distinction upon Dr. Volodymyr Lushchak, a distinguished scholar holding the title of Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and read more