[Department of molecular immunology].

The Department of Molecular Immunology was created at the Institute in 1982. It was founded by S. V. Komissarenko, a pupil of the well-known Ukrainian biochemist M. F. Guly. Today, S. V. Komissarenko is the Academician of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences and one of the leading specialists in the field of Molecular Immunology. The main scientific problems studied at the Department now are molecular mechanisms of the immune recognition, antigenic structures of proteins and peptides as well as the mechanisms of lymphocyte activation underlying their proliferation and differentiation. Over the last years, special attention was payed to developing the approaches of immunochemical analysis of certain proteins and peptides of blood coagulation system to control thrombus formation. The results of these investigations are to be used for designing the immunodiagnostic test-systems and for creating synthetic vaccines for clinical practice.