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Institute of Experimental Morphology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, has been founded at April 1, 1946. The main scientific interests of the Institute are as follows: 1. Investigation of cardio-vascular system in conditions of health and disease, in experimentally modeled pathologies; Examination of new pharmacological and/or surgical methods and their evaluation in experimental models. The peculiarities of blood microcirculatory bed have been studied, considering the structural and functional state of the regions supplied. Regional blood vessel-tissue interrelations and histo-hematic barrier importance have been investigated in response to both various functional loads and pathogenic reagents’influence.
2. Fundamentals of the malignant growth morphogenesis. Determination of the early signs of neoplasia, as well as of different alterations of the tissue elements constituting the tumor, is of a paramount importance for the oncological practice, in assessment of early diagnosis and treatment effects.
3. Investigation of the aging process and longevity, along with evaluation of medical-biological indices. The following social factors are considered: environment, life-style, feeding peculiarities, health, capacity for work, etc.
4. Morphology of endocrine system.
The Institute is a pioneering Georgian organization in implementing of the radionuclid analysis, which permitted to evaluate precisely the hormones and a number of biologically active substances and their comparison with structural indices. Director of the Institute is Nino Javakhishvili, Academician, Doctor of Medicine, Professor.
In the meantime 12 Doctors and 37 Candidates of Sciences are working in the Institute. Total of 257 Dissertations - including 42 thesis for degree of Doctor - have been prepared and supported in the Institute. Institute of Experimental Morphology had exceptionally close scientific cooperation with various institutes of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences: Institute of Human Morphology, A.Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery, A.Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery; Institute of Gerontology,Ukranian SSR Academy of Sciences. Scientific cooperation has been carried with Institute of Surgery, Slovakia Academy of Sciences; Insstitute of Gerontology, Slovakian Ministry of Health; New York Institute of Human. Joint scientific conferences have been organized with all the above-mentioned institutions. In 1966 the Institute histed the USSR Convention of Anatomists, Histologists, and Embryiologist. In 1975 the First USSR Conference on Social-Economic probltms of Gerontology. In 1989 the USSR Convention of Gerontology. The Institute initiated mirphological conferences within Transcaucasus (Total of 6 conferences have been held).
Periodical editions by the Institute: Proceedings of the Institute of Experimental Morphology - 32 volumes; Monographs - 110 volumes.
Specialized Conferences are organized regularly:
1. Experimental Morphology of Cardio-Vascular System (Four Conferences);
2. Ultrastructural Fundamentals of Cardiac- and Blood Vessels’ Pathologies (Four Conferences);
3. Modern Methods of Morphological Investigation in Theoretical and Practical Oncology (Four Conferences);
4. Problems of Andrology (four Conferences);
5. Actual Problems of Gerontology and Geriatry (Nine Conferences and Symposia).
The Georgian-Russian-Latin Dictionary of Anatomical, Histological, and Embryological Terms has been published.
The Institute investigators take an active part in local and International scientific gatherings in foreign countries as both ordinary speakers and organizers of these conventions and conferences. Some workers of the Institute have been elected honorary members of foreign scientific societies. In the meantime the Institute maintains close relations with former USSR- and other foreign countries’ specialists and organizations (USA, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, etc.). A number of original scientific directions have been developed in the Institute and henceforth stimulated establishment of a variety of scientific institutions: Center of Developmental Biology (I.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University); As an independent establishment the Institute of Medical Biotechnology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, has been founded. The Resuscitation Problems Laboratory has been established in the Institute. On the basis of the Institute, the Group of Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences - M.Komakhidze - has been working.

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