The Institute of Human Immunology and Genomics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan was founded on the initiative of Academician Aripov U.A., Academician Petrov R.V. and academician R.M. Khaitov in 1985. It is the only institution of this profile throughout Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
UKTAM ARIPOVICH ARIPOV
(1927–2002) - an outstanding scientist, public figure and health care organizer, a major clinician-surgeon, made a significant contribution to the development of medicine and healthcare, the training of highly qualified personnel for medical universities and research institutes of the republic.
1953 – Candidate of Medical Sciences degree
1961 – Doctor of Medical Sciences degree
1956-1964 Head of the Department of General Surgery, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of Samarkand State Medical Institute.
1964-1971 First Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan
1971-1984 Rector of the Tashkent State Medical Institute
1965 – Head of the Department of Faculty Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
1968 – Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences
1971 – Creation of a Problem Research Laboratory to overcome tissue incompatibility during organ and tissue transplantation. Goal: introduction of domestic immunomodulators into practice. Creation of a Kidney Transplant Center.
1972 – The first kidney transplant in Uzbekistan to a patient with chronic renal failure
1974 – Full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
1983 – State Prize named after A. Beruni for work on the study of transplantation immunity, the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, and the creation of domestic immunosuppressive drugs.
1985 – Creation of the Research Institute of Immunology of the Academy of Sciences of the UzSSR
1990 – Permission from the Ministry of Health to transplant pancreatic islet cells for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus
1991 – The Specialized Scientific Center for Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery was organized
1993 – Patent for the use of cells from Astrakhan sheep lambs in the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
2001 – Foreign member of the Russian Medical Academy
Under the leadership of Aripov U.A. Doctoral dissertations – 25 and candidate dissertations – 65 defended
RAHIM MUSAEVICH KHAITOV
(1944–2022) - an outstanding scientist, organizer, one of the leading allergists and immunologists in the world, made a significant contribution to the development of fundamental and applied aspects of immunology, immunogenetics and biotechnology.
1968 – Candidate of Medical Sciences degree
1972 – Doctor of Medical Sciences degree
1983 – Deputy Director of the Institute of Immunology of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1985 – Creation of the Research Institute of Immunology of the Academy of Sciences of the UzSSR
1988-2014 Director of the Research Institute of Immunology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
1997 – Full member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
2005 – Head of the Department of Clinical Allergology and Immunology,
President of the Russian Association of Allergologists and Clinical Immunologists, WHO expert on immunology.
2006 – Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in the physiology of the immune system, Author of the textbook “Immunology”,
2009 – National Guide “Allergology and Immunology”
2011 – Editor-in-Chief of the journals “Immunology” and “Physiology and Pathology of the Immune System.
Awards:
State Prize of the Uzbek SSR, State Prize of the Russian Federation for the work “Conjugated polymer-subunit immunogens and vaccines” (2001);
State Prize of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in the scientific and practical development of domestic immunology (2011);
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2010);
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2005);
Order of Honor (1997);
Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
Order of the Badge of Honor;
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1973) – for experimental analysis of practically significant problems of transplantation of hematopoietic tissues to irradiated recipients, A. A. Bogomolets Prize of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences;
I. Mechnikov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (1996);
Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (2015) – for achievements in labor
REM VIKTOROVICH PETROV
is an outstanding innovative scientist, the founder of a new direction in medical science, who made a significant contribution to the training of highly qualified personnel, to the teaching and promotion of immunology in Russia and the CIS.
1954 – Candidate of Medical Sciences
1961 – Doctor of Medical Sciences
1971 – 1972 Expert immunologist from the USSR in the UN Scientific Committee
1976 – Expert of the World Health Organization on immunology until 01 2019 – Headed the nanobiotechnology section of the Department of Nanotechnology and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian National Committee on Bioethics
1983 – President of the All-Union Scientific Society of Immunologists.
Currently, he is honorary president of the Russian Scientific Society of Immunologists.
Honorary President of the Russian Association of Allergists and Clinical Immunologists.
Editor-in-chief of the journal “Science in Russia”, member of the editorial boards of the journals “Immunology”, “Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences”, “Allergology and Immunology”.
1984 – Full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1985 – Creation of a branch of the Institute of Immunology in Tashkent
1988 – Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1992 – Head of the Department of Immunology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS named after Academicians M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov.
1988-2001 Vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, then the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2001 – Advisor to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Author and co-author of more than 400 scientific articles and 16 monographs, a textbook for universities “Immunology” (1987).
Awards, honorary titles
Hero of Socialistic Labor (1991). Awarded the Order of the October Revolution (1981),
“For Services to the Fatherland” III degree (1999), medal “For Labor Valor” (1956).
Laureate of the State Prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology in 2001 (for the work “Conjugated polymer-subunit immunogens and vaccines”) and 2011 (for outstanding achievements in the scientific and practical development of domestic immunology), the 1996 Russian Government Prize in the field science and technology (for the development, introduction into industrial production and clinical practice of a new type of immunocorrective drugs of peptide nature: tactivin and myelopid). Among his awards is the A.A. Bogomolets Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1979), gold medal and Mechnikov Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Demidov Prize (2000), etc.
Foreign member of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1993), Norwegian Academy of Sciences (1999). In 1986 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.