Bogomolets Institute of Physiology as a Flagship in Investigations of Brain Cellular and Molecular Physiology in Ukraine

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1 Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Correspondence should be addressed to A. N. Shevko (e-mail: shevko@biph.kiev.ua). According to the Decision of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (AUAS) from May 9, 1934 (protocol No. 17), the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the AUAS in Kyiv was founded. Organization of this Institute was initiated by Academician Aleksandr Bogomolets, a famous Ukrainian scientist, statesman, and public figure. Studies carried out in this Institute became widely known among physiologists, pathophysiologists, and physicians and promoted progress in the fields of immunology, allergology, hematology, endocrinology, gerontology, and oncology in the former USSR and Ukrainian SSR. Prominent scientists, such as N. D. Strazhesko, V. P. Filatov, V. P. Vorob’yev, A. I. Smirnova−Zamkova, N. F. Mel’nikov–Razvedenkov, A. V. Leontovich, N. N. Gorev, R. E. Kavetskii, E. A. Tatarinov, N. I. Ishchenko, N. N. Sirotinin, N. B. Medvedeva, A. Yu. Lur’ye, A. D. Timofeyevskii, and others, worked under the guidance of Academician A. Bogomolets (Director of the Institute from 1934 to 1946). Studies by scientists of the Institute in the field of theoretical and clinical medicine were immediately recognized by the international scientific community. At the International Congresses carried out in Rome (1935) and then in Paris (1937), lectures of A. A. Bogomolets, where he presented his concepts on the mechanisms underlying the action of donor blood on the recipient, attracted great attention. At the World Exhibition in Paris (1937), A. A. Bogomolets was awarded the “Gold Medal” diploma for scientific studies of great value for applied medicine. “Medical Journal,” which