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Our team consists of people with different educational backgrounds, who share a passion for discovering the mechanisms of the action of drugs. The subject of our preclinical research concerns the mechanism of action of psychoactive drugs, especially antidepressants and antipsychotics.

Research methods and models used in our Laboratory are very advanced, diverse, and constantly developed - from cell cultures to transgenic animals, from radioisotope techniques (saturation and competition analyses, receptor autoradiography) to studies of receptor protein interactions in the brain using the PLA technique, in situ hybridization, RT-PCR and miRNA measurements; basically it's hard to list them all.

Our strength is an excellent, well-coordinated, interdisciplinary, and closely cooperating team, which means every new technique is easy for us.

Our team

Marta Dziedzicka-Wasylewska, Professor - Until this year, over 20 years, she was the head of the Laboratory

Agata Faron-Górecka, Ph.D., Prof. IF PAN - since January 2020 - July 2024 the head of the Laboratory

Joanna Solich, PhD
Magdalena Kolasa, PhD
Agata Korlatowicz, Msc, PhD Student
Paulina Pabian, Msc



Alumni

Maciej Kuśmider, PhD, MD
Marta Szlachta, PhD
Dariusz Żurawek, PhD
Kinga Szafran-Pilch, PhD
Katarzyna Latocha, Msc
Beata Zemła
Katarzyna Kmiotek-Wasylewska, Msc
Martyna Kordiaczyńska, Msc

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