Laboratory of Molecular Neurology
(activity discontinued since the end of 2001)

Head: Leszek Rychlewski, MD, PhD

Projects involved:
- "Rational Engineering of the metabolism of fatty acids in FLAX (REFLAX) to produce branched chain fatty acids, with potent bio-lubricant properties". This project was financed by the 5th Framework Programme and by the Polish Committee for Scientific Research.
- "Engineering of DNA Methyltransferases" was a project in collaboration with Dr. M. Radlinska (P.I.) and Dr. A. Piekarowicz (co-P.I.) from the Institute of Microbiology, Warsaw University and L. Rychlewski (co-P.I.) from IIMCB aimed to investigate and characterize the nature of the specificity of recognition of DNA by proteins form the methyltransferase family.