History
At the origins of the creation of the laboratory of the molecular biology of the cell is the chlorophyll laboratory, which was organized in 1945 as part of the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR. The first head of the chlorophyll laboratory was Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the BSSR, laureate of the K.A. Timiryazev of the USSR Academy of Sciences Tikhon Nikolaevich Godnev, who headed the laboratory from the moment of its formation until 1974.
In 1967 the laboratory was transferred to the Laboratory of Biophysics and Isotopes of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (since 1973 – the Institute of Photobiology of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR). In the period from 1974 to 1994. Doctor of biological sciences E.V. Khodasevich headed the laboratory.
In 1988, the chlorophyll laboratory has renamed the laboratory for photo regulation of cellular processes, and in 1994 it was merged with the laboratory of biophysics of photobiological and receptor processes, which was founded in 1985 by I.D. Volotovsky. In the same year, the joint laboratory was headed by an academician of the National academy of sciences of Belarus, a doctor of biological sciences, professor I.D. Volotovsky. In 2004, the laboratory has renamed the Laboratory of cell molecular biology.
Since September 2020, the laboratory has been headed by A.G. Poleshko, Ph.D. Since this year, the laboratory has been actively developing new scientific areas related to the production of induced pluripotent cells, the development of approaches for creating tissue engineering structures using 3D bioprinting, the creation of new biomedical cell products, as well as the modification of the animal cell genome using the CRISPR/Cas9 target endonuclease system.
Since Aprile 2023 the Laboratory was renamed into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Cell Biotechnology.