Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Molecular Biology

MICH develops research in the following areas: 1. Fundamental research on the replication cycle of poliovirus, research concentrates on the first steps of the cycle (adsorption, uncoating) and the last step (assembly); 2. Development of new poliovaccines (also biotech vaccines); 3. Fundamental research on antiviral compounds (in collaboration with Janssen Research Foundation); 4. Viruses on the origin of multiple sclerosis?; 5. Theiler murine encephalitis virus (TMEV), a mouse model for multiple sclerosis.