Institutul de Biochimie al Academiei Române, Bucureşti

The Institute of Biochemistry was founded in 1958 having at its core four directions of research: animal and plant biochemistry, enzymology and immunochemistry. In 1972 the Institute of Biochemistry was dissolved into the Institute of Biology as two laboratories: enzymology and immunology.
In 1990, the Institute revived as an independent unit under the auspices of the Romanian Academy and has activated ever since as a Centre of Research and Advanced Education in Protein Biosynthesis and Function.
In 1998 the board of the Institute decided to undertake an international evaluation program under the auspices of the NATO Scientific Division and the Romanian Academy, with a recall in 2000. This led to a significant increase in the quality of research that has set new international standards to the Romanian bio-medical research.
The biochemical advanced education programs ? such as the PhD training program, the post doctoral international and national courses etc., do focuss also on protein biosynthesis and traffic. The attractivity of these programs is reflected in the high number of undergraduate, MSc and PhD students interested to learn from our experience. Due to this influx of young people, the Institute has an average age of the research staff of only 37. Despite this, the results are significant and made this institution internationally recognized. The Institute has permanent links with the University of Oxford, with which it runs a collaborative PhD training program, and has also collaborations with many other research groups in Europe and US such as the Max Plank Institute from Dortmund, the Universities of Gőteborg, Wageningen, Glasgow and Durham, or NIH Bethesda.