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Leszek Jerzy Rychlewski (born February 10, 1971 in Poznań) is a Polish scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder CEO of BioInfoBank Institute and one of the pioneers of Polish bioinformatics.
In 1988, Rychlewski entered the medical faculty (Charité) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He graduated in 1996 and defended his MD dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Cornelius Frömmel two years later. From 1996 to 1998, during his doctoral studies, he worked as a research fellow at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Adam Godzik and Prof. Jeffrey Skolnick. His research focused on the development of methods for protein structure prediction from the sequence of amino acids.
He then held the appointment of postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Godzik's research group at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1998-1999), where he continued his research on the enhancement of protein structure and function prediction methods. Upon returning to Poland in 1999, he created the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw and led it until 2001.
In 1999, Dr Rychlewski founded BioInfoBank Institute – a private non-profit research institution functioning in the field of bioinformatics. In its first months the institute was providing software for pharmaceutical companies.
In 2007, together with Marcin Hoffmann, he founded BIB Seed Capital - a seed capital fund focused on supporting Polish scientific and engineering thought in such fields as bioinformatics, molecular biology, chemistry and computer science, alongside with facilitating its transfer to small and medium-sized enterprises.
In 2012 Rychlewski's, his parents' and his brothers' genomes were fully sequenced and published
