Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology

Welcome to the website of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology. We are part of the Department of Pharmacology, Maj  Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow. 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 in the context of drug resistance.

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 team, interdisciplinary and closely cooperating, which means that no new technique is difficult for us.

In November 2022, a team has been awarded the Division V of Medical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for a series of publications: "Determination of the role of selected microRNAs as biomarkers of stress resilience".

To find out more about the life of our Lab, please visit our blog

Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology PAS (goreckalab.blogspot.com)