Affiliations
Professor Wojciech J. Stec elected as the member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in 1993, with the end of 2010 finished his term as a Vice-President of PAS. He is a founder of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at The Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies in Lodz, institution he has been working with since 1970.
Professor Stec is an associate in advisory boards for various prestigious journals and a member of many scientific organizations. During his successful career he has published over 400 original papers, many books and was invited as a speaker to numerous international meetings and conferences. He is best known as a co-creator of antisense gene therapy and an inventor for stereocontroled methods of synthesis of P-chiral analogues of oligonucleotides, such as phosphorothioate, DNA-triesters and alkane phosphonates.
Among many honors Professor Stec received the prestigious Award of the National Institute of Health, Fogarty-Scholar-In-Residence (1992), and the Foundation for Polish Science (commonly called the "Polish Nobel Prize"-2004).
Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry