Structure of the Institute of bioorganic chemistry
Nowadays the M.M. Shemyakin–Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences is more than 100 scientific laboratories and production departments, as performing the function of fundamental scientific researches as researching concrete practical application for actual problems of physicochemical biology and biotechnology.
Management
The IBCh RAS administrative office focuses on the development of the advanced fundamental researches, the effective work of the development units and the maintenance of the Institute’s infrastructure at the highest level.
Research departments
Today 18 departments have been created at the Institute, each of which combines several laboratories exploring the particular scientific fields. In general, the Institute consists of more than 70 research laboratories employing more than 700 researchers.
- Department of Peptide and Protein Technologies
- Department of immunology
- Department of structural biology
- Department of Genomics and Postgenomic Technologies
- Department of molecular bases of neurosignalization
- Bioengineering department
- Department of Molecular Neurobiology
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
- Department of Chemical Biology of Glycans and Lipids
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- Department of Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology
- Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity
- Department of functioning of living systems
- Department of metabolism and redox biology
- Department of biotechnology
- Department of Biological Testing
- Science-Educational center
- Scientific departments of the BIBCh
Development and support departments
The Scientific-support and Development units play an important role in the work of the Institute providing all the necessary infrastructure.
- Experimental workshop unit
- Security and Fire Safety Service
- Group of motor-vehicle transport
- Engineering and ecology unit
- Department of polygraphy
- Department of Experimental Biology with Vivarium
- Department of Information Security
- Laboratory of isotope analysis
- Scientific-organizational department
- National Committee of Russian Biochemists
- Patents department
- International Scientific Relations Department
- Russian journal of bioorganic chemistry (editorship)
- Radiation Safety Service
- Multifunctional information center
- Department of Postgraduate Studies
- Department of Computing Resources and Digital Transformation
Education
Within the walls of the Institute the considerable attention is payed to the training of highly qualified specialists in the field of physicochemical biology and biotechnology.
IBCh centers
The Center of collective use of scientific equipment (Collective Use Center, CUC IBCh) as well as the Center of National Technological Initiative (NTI Center) have been created on the basis of the IBCh RAS.
IBCh boards
There are several councils and commissions at the IBCh RAS that determine a vector of development of the Institute, provide expert opinion and evaluate the scientific work.