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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to take part in the XXIV All-Russian scientific and practical neurosurgery conference with international participation Polenov's Readings, which will be held on April 24–25, 2025.

The conference will discuss the topical issues in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and injuries of the nervous system with an interdisciplinary approach. Medical and genetic aspects of neurosurgical conditions will be discussed, as well as molecular and genetic features of neurodegenerative disorders in terms of neuroplasticity, connectomics and the significance of nervous system damage markers. The conference will bring together speakers from Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, other CIS and non-CIS countries.

Organizers:
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Almazov National Medical Research Centre
Polenov Neurosurgical Institute (branch of Almazov Centre)
The conference will feature plenary and breakout sessions and satellite symposia on the following topics:
• Historical, organizational and ethical aspects of neurosurgery
• Neurotrauma and its consequences
• Neuro-oncology
• Cerebrovascular disorders
• Degenerative spinal diseases
• Peripheral nervous system diseases
• Pediatric neurosurgery
• Epilepsy
• Functional and reconstructive neurosurgery
• Neuroanesthesiology and neuroresuscitation
• Neurorehabilitation
• Neurophysiology
• Neuroimaging
• Pathology
• Genetics

Forms of participation
• Articles, abstracts
• Posters
• Presenter
• Attendee

Registration
The event is free to attend but pre-registration is required. There is no registration fee.
Online registration is available on the website www.almazovcentre.ru.
All registered participants will receive name badges for admission to all sessions and the exhibition.

Contacts
Conference and Communications Department
e-mail: conference@almazovcentre.ru

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the scientific and practical conference with international participation Neurology of the XXI Century: Topical Issues, Achievements and Innovations, which will be held within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Congress of Neuroscience on April 24–25, 2025.

The conference will discuss the latest achievements in neuroscience, current problems in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of nervous system diseases. Medical and genetic aspects of neurological conditions will be discussed, as well as updates on the study of neurodegenerative and vascular diseases molecular and challenges associated with healthy longevity in terms of neuroplasticity and connectomics. The conference will include a meeting of the Russian Committee of Multiple Sclerosis Research. The conference will bring together neurologists and specialists in related fields, healthcare executives from Russia and CIS countries. Leading Russian and world experts will be invited.

The programme includes plenary and breakout sessions, satellite symposia, workshops, lectures by leading experts, clinical case discussions and young scientist sessions on the following topics:
• Cerebrovascular disorders
• Autoimmune and demyelinating diseases of the nervous system
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Peripheral nervous system disorders, pain
• Spondylogenic neurological disorders
• Acute and chronic neurological infections
• Neurorehabilitation
• Neurophysiology
• Neuroimaging
• Neurogenetics

Forms of participation
• Abstracts
• Presenter
• Attendee

Registration
Online registration is available on the website www.almazovcentre.ru.
The event is free to attend but pre-registration is required. There is no registration fee.
All registered participants will receive name badges for admission to all sessions and the exhibition.

Contacts
Conference and Communications Department
e-mail: conference@almazovcentre.ru

Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to take part in scientific and practical conference with international participation Neurology of the XXI Century: Topical Issues, Achievements and Innovations, which will be held within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Congress of Neuroscience on April 11–12, 2024.

The event will be held as part of the programme of the WCRC for Personalized Medicine and supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The conference will discuss the latest achievements in neuroscience, current problems in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and injuries of the nervous system with an interdisciplinary approach. Medical and genetic aspects of neurosurgical and neurological conditions will be discussed, as well as molecular and genetic features of neurodegenerative disorders in terms of neuroplasticity, connectomics and the significance of markers of nervous system damage.

The conference will bring together neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, specialists in basic disciplines and healthcare executives from Russia and CIS countries. Leading Russian and world experts will be invited.

The programme includes plenary and breakout sessions, satellite symposia, workshops, lectures by leading experts, clinical case discussions and young scientist sessions on the following topics:
• Cerebrovascular disorders
• Autoimmune and demyelinating diseases of the nervous system
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Peripheral nervous system disorders, pain
• Spondylogenic neurological disorders
• Acute and chronic neurological infections
• Neurorehabilitation
• Neurophysiology
• Neuroimaging
• Neurogenetics
• Mental and psychosomatic disorders
• Mental health prevention and rehabilitation
• Complex clinical case management

Forms of participation
• Articles, abstracts
• Presenter
• Attendee

Registration

The event is free to attend but pre-registration is required. There is no registration fee.

All registered participants will receive name badges at the registration desk. The wearing of conference name badges will be required for admission to all sessions and the exhibition.

Contacts

Conference and Communications Department:
e-mail: conference@almazovcentre.ru

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the XXIII All-Russian scientific and practical neurosurgery conference with international participation Polenov's Readings dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alexei Molotkov, which will be held within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Congress of Neuroscience on April 11–12, 2024.

The event will be held as part of the programme of the WCRC for Personalized Medicine and supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The conference will discuss the topical issues in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and injuries of the nervous system with an interdisciplinary approach. Medical and genetic aspects of neurosurgical and neurological conditions will be discussed, as well as molecular and genetic features of neurodegenerative disorders in terms of neuroplasticity, connectomics and the significance of markers of nervous system damage. The conference will bring together speakers from Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, other CIS and non-CIS countries.

The conference will feature plenary and breakout sessions and satellite symposia on the following topics:
• Historical, organizational and ethical aspects of neurosurgery
• Neurotrauma and its consequences
• Neuro-oncology
• Cerebrovascular disorders
• Degenerative spinal diseases
• Peripheral nervous system diseases
• Pediatric neurosurgery
• Epilepsy
• Functional and reconstructive neurosurgery
• Neuroanesthesiology and neuroresuscitation
• Neurorehabilitation
• Neurophysiology
• Neuroimaging
• Pathology
• Genetics

Forms of participation
• Articles, abstracts
• Presenter
• Attendee

Registration

All registered participants will receive name badges at the registration desk. The wearing of conference name badges will be required for admission to all sessions and the exhibition.
The event is free to attend but pre-registration is required. There is no registration fee.

Contacts
Conference and Communications Department:
e-mail: conference@almazovcentre.ru

The Third Russian Diagnostic Summit took place on October 4-6, 2023 in Moscow and will brought together several major events: IX Russian Congress of Laboratory Medicine, VI Final Conference of MRO RORR on Radiological, Ultrasound, and Functional Diagnostics and MIR Forum: Management in Medicine.

The Summit program was extremely fruitful and rich in 2023; one of the most significant events was the awarding ceremony for the winners of Menshikov Prize held on October 6 as part of the IX Russian Congress of Laboratory Medicine. The Prize was established by the decision of the Presidium of Association of Laboratory Service Specialists «Federation of Laboratory Medicine» and is awarded annually in three nominations.

This year in the nomination «For Contribution to Laboratory Service Development» the Menshikov Prize was awarded to the young team of Almazov National Medical Research Centre headed by Professor Tatyana Vavilova. Professor Vavilova thanked the Association «Federation of Laboratory Medicine» for recognizing the merits of the Chair and added the team always actively goes forward and strives to work in new educational format.

This year, the interdisciplinary focus of the scientific program of the Summit was the theme of inflammation as the leitmotif of diagnostics; it covered more than 200 scientific sessions of the event. Experts discussed various pathological processes from the perspective of their specialization as well as from the standpoint of common diagnostic service problems. Among other key themes of the Summit there were current issues in molecular diagnostics, genetics and immunology, radiological, ultrasound, functional, and radionuclide diagnostics, hematology and hemostasis, microbiological research and infectious diseases, quality assurance and adequate interpretation of results issued, as well as education and training of personnel, organization and economics of diagnostic services, and medical device regulation.

The Summit was attended by the specialists from 32 countries, including delegations from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Ethiopia, Algeria, Serbia, India and Turkey. More than 750 experts and leaders in medical diagnostics became moderators and speakers of the scientific and educational program, in 2023, the Summit brought together the record-breaking number of the participants: 11,923 specialists. About 200 leading companies-manufacturers, distributors of medical equipment and software developers presented at the exhibition «Diagnopolis».

The Summit included a joint meeting of two commissions of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation: in clinical laboratory diagnostics and medical microbiology.

On October 5-6, Almazov Centre hosted scientific and practical conference Modern CT and MRI Technologies in Cardiology and Workshop on Cardiac CT and MRI.

The event was held as part of the programme of the WCRC for Personalized Medicine with support from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The conference was attended by sonologists, functional imaging specialists, radiologists, cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, general practitioners and other interested specialists.

The conference covered the topical issues of using modern CT and MRI technologies in cardiology and presented the achievements of leading specialists. Leading experts gave lectures on cardiac imaging and diagnostic radiology in cardiology.

From October 4 to 6, the XI St. Petersburg International Health Forum -2023 took place in St. Petersburg.

The round table “Moving towards personalized medicine — myth or reality” was organized as a part of the Forum by the Almazov National Medical Research Centre with the assistance of the Russian Academy of Science Council on Personalized Medicine. The event was chaired by the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine, Director General of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Professor Evgeny Shlyakhto.

The concept of personalized medicine needs significant changes in the infrastructure of biomedical science and emphasizes the importance of an interdisciplinary approach aimed at more effective use of knowledge in genomics, innovative bioinformatics and advanced nanotechnologies in clinical practice, i.e., the rapid transfer of fundamental studies to practical healthcare.

To implement the concept, it is necessary to expand the instrumental base of the research institutions, develop a network of biobanks and collective use centers, databases and libraries, and broad international integration. It is also important to change the essence and structure of personnel training in personalized medicine technologies.

Personalized healthcare is declared as one of the strategic priorities of the Russian Federation until 2030 by the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development.

During the round table, the experts discussed Russian healthcare system and its consideration to personalized technologies, personalized medicine as an increase in cost or savings; the ways how artificial intelligence can help; what specialists need to be trained, etc.

Opening the event, Professor Shlyakhto spoke about the relevance of the transfer to personalized medicine. “Personalized medicine is a model, and it should be considered precisely as a model involving a full understanding of patient’s genetics, phenotype and using all technologies to individualize the treatment taking into account genetic and epigenetic factors. Precision medicine is a specific implementation of this model at the level of a group of patients or even an individual patient also based on personal data. Therefore, as part of the discussion, we should not reduce personalized medicine to an individualized approach, where there is no special genetics and speak the same language,” the academician said.

The first expert Dmitry Sychev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine, Rector of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Professional Education described the modern medicine readiness for personalized technologies implementation.

Professor Alexandra Konradi, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Secretary of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine, Deputy Director General for Research of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre made a presentation on the topic “Is the professional community ready? Society. Survey data. Barriers.”

Director of the Institute of Perinatology and Pediatrics of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre Tatyana Pervunina continued the discussion with the issues of personalized medicine in perinatology and genetic screening among pregnant women.

Igor Kogan, Сorresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine, Director of the Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology shared his opinion on reproductive health and demographic crisis and possibilities of personalized approach.

The main problem of the PM transfer (including the use of genetic technologies) is public awareness, the second is the education of physicians and research areas and topics development, without this the development of personalized medicine is impossible,” Igor Yuryevich noted during his speech.

Continuing the event course, Boris Alekseev, Deputy Director for Research of the National Medical Research Center of Radiology spoke about problems in targeted prescription of drugs. Deputy Director for Organizational and Methodological Work Yuri Komarov performed the presentation on the availability of personalized medicine technologies.

One of the rapidly developing areas of PM is neurology; the corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine Marine Tanashyan continued the topic and presented the data on the most actual frontiers in neurology and prevention issues in vascular neurology.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine, Director of the Bakulev National Medical Research Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery, professor Elena Golukhova covered the issues in personalized cardiology and cardiac surgery.

“Personalized medical production is extremely important, but I suppose that modern technologies for monitoring and support of the postoperative period, machine learning and AI for early prevention of complications are very relevant for solving issues in cardiac surgery as well; remote technologies for rehabilitation after heart surgery; home monitoring of implanted pacemakers helps in complex,” Elena Zelikovna explained to the experts.

Corresponding Member of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine Yuri Lopatin continued the round table with the topic discussion in achievements of personalized technologies in oncology.

Deputy Director for IT and Project Management of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre Dmitry Kurapeev presented about the artificial intelligence in personalized medicine; Member of the RAS Council on Personalized Medicine Simon Matskeplishvili continued the topic of information technology.

Deputy Director of BARS Group Elvira Gilmanova spoke about BioDataBanks — as the basis of personalized medicine of future.

Director of the Institute of Medical Education of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre Elena Parmon spoke about education in personalized medicine.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology Natalya Mokrysheva presented the Centre as a provider of medical innovations.

In conclusion, the Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Almazov National Medical Research Centre Anna Kostareva summed up the discussion and presented new gene therapy tactics in personalized medicine.

ESOT Congress 2023: The International Transplant Congress organised by the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) took place in Athens, Greece, from 17 to 20 September.

Maria Simonenko, researcher at the Cardiopulmonary Testing Research Laboratory, transplant cardiologist, was invited to give a presentation on «Prehabilitation and rehabilitation after thoracic transplantation» at the European Association of Cardiothoracic Transplantation (ECTTA) symposium «ECTTA: Preserving the Organs and the Recipients in the Long Term».

She also gave a presentation on «The impact of exercise training on physical capacity and quality of life after heart transplantation» at the symposium «Contemporary Heart Transplantation: Scores, Pumps, Cells and Much More».

Additionally, the poster sessions featured the following presentations by Maria Simonenko:
— “Heart transplantation over 60 years-old: a single-centre experience”
— “First experience with COVID-19 vaccination in heart transplant patients”
— “A single centre first experience of paediatric heart transplantation from adult donors”
— “A single-centre experience of COVID-19 management in heart transplant recipients”

From 3 to 8 July, St. Petersburg hosted the White Nights Oncology Forum, one of the largest events in cancer care, bringing together a wide range of specialists from Russia, neighbouring countries and beyond. Its main goal is to provide a unique global scientific platform for the medical community to share the latest cancer research to improve the quality of medical care and reduce morbidity and mortality.

The event traditionally brought together specialists such as oncologists, pathologists, chemotherapists, surgeons, radiotherapists, diagnostic radiologists, geneticists, healthcare executives, scientists, representatives of patient organizations, charitable foundations, etc.

Specialists of Almazov Centre took an active part in the work of the Forum with the following presentations:
• “Infrastructure for success: the experience of a large research centre” by Anastasia Kirichenko, Director of Preclinical Translational Research Centre
• “Unresectable glioma – what to do?” by Vladislav Chirkin, neurosurgeon
• “Endometrial cancer: a cascade of problems”, “MHT and endometrial cancer” by Elena Ulrich, Chief Researcher, Research Laboratory of Reproductive Technologies, Head of Oncofertility Competence Centre (she also chaired the Endometrial Cancer session and took part in the Rare Tumours round table)
• “Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in fragile patients” by Dmitry Fedorov, urologist and assistant surgeon of the da Vinci surgical system
• “PET-CT in the differential diagnosis of endogenous hypercortisolism” by Darya Ryzhkova, Head of the Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Technologies Department, Chief Researcher, Nuclear Medicine and Theranostics Department
• “Personalized approach to choosing a combined treatment for patients with advanced ovarian cancer” by Tatyana Gorodnova, gynecologist-oncologist
• “A clinical case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the bladder” by Olga Svirepova, resident at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Medical Imaging