Institute of Experimental Medicine

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INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, a research institute situated at 12 Akademika Pavlova Street. It was founded by Prince A. P. Oldenburgsky as the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine in 1890 to become the first multifield medical and biological research centre (memorial plaque). It was renamed as the State Institute of Experimental Medicine in 1918, and reorganised into the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine in 1932. It was transferred to Moscow in 1934. Based on the institute, the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR was established in 1944 with a Leningrad Branch transformed into the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. It received its present-day name in 1992. Over time, the institute's departments grew into the Institute of Vaccines and Serums, Influenza Institute, and the Institute of Human Brain. The institute carries out complex development projects in physiology, biochemistry, neuropharmacology, immunology, virology, molecular biology and genetics, and comprehensive study of atherosclerosis. The clinic's doctors work in close contact with scientific departments using their studies in diagnosis and treatment. The institute's history is associated with I. P. Pavlov and has a memorial plaque, memorial room, and bust devoted to him, M. W. Nentsky with a bust by sculptor A. Olunsky installed in the entrance hall of the biochemical department, N. O. Sieber-Shumova with a bas-relief sculpted by Olunsky in the same place, and E. S. London with a bust by sculptor M. G. Manizer installed in the institute area. Memorial plaques bear the names of N. N. Anichkov, S. V. Anichkov, D. A. Biryukov, K. M. Bykov, A. A. Zavarzin, V. I. Ioffe, P. S. Kupalov, and E. S. London. In one of the park alleys, there are busts of R. Descartes, C. Darwin, G. Mendel, L. Pasteur, I. M. Sechenov by sculptor I. F. Bezpalov, D. I. Mendeleev, and I. P. Pavlov by sculptors G. K. Bagramyan and V. L. Rybalko. There is also a monument to a dog sculpted by Bezpalov in 1935 with narrative bas-reliefs and texts written by I. P. Pavlov. The institute also has its own history museum.

References: Первый в России исследовательский центр в области биологии и медицины: К 100-летию Ин-та эксперимент. медицины, 1890-1990. Л., 1990; Институт экспериментальной медицины на рубеже тысячелетий: Достижения в обл. эксперимент. биологии и медицины. СПб., 2000.

T. I. Grekova. Anichkov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Anichkov Sergey Viktorovich
Bagramyan Gennady Karlovich
Bezpalov Innokenty Fedorovich
Biryukov Dmitry Andreevich
Bykov Konstantin Mikhailovich
Darwin Charles Robert
Descartes Rene
Ioffe Vladimir Ilyich
Kupalov Peter Stepanovich
London Efim Semenovich
Manizer Matvey Genrikhovich
Mendel Gregor Johan
Mendeleev Dmitry Ivanovich
Nentsky Martzely Wilhelmovich
Oldenburgsky Alexander Petrovich, Prince
Olunsky A.
Pasteur Louis
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich
Rybalko Valentina Leontievna
Sechenov Ivan Mikhailovich
Sieber-Shumova N.O.
Zavarzin Alexey Alexeevich
Akademika Pavlova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Первый в России исследовательский центр в области биологии и медицины: К 100-летию Ин-та эксперимент. медицины, 1890-1990. Л., 1990
Институт экспериментальной медицины на рубеже тысячелетий: Достижения в обл. эксперим. биологии и медицины. СПб., 2000 Institute of Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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