Research Activities

Research perfomed in the Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy coincided with the fields in which the specialists are being trained and comprises the following aspects.

- Development of disease prevention methods by studiing the influences of different environmental factors on human health as well as effects of different lifestyles.

- Development of concepts which could improve human adaptation capability to substances of syntetic and natural origin and the ways to correct it.

- Study of pathogenesis, prophylaxis, treatment strategies and prognosis for cardiovascular diseases, most common gastrointestinal tract pathologies, locomotion system abnormalities, hepatic and renal insuffiency.

- Development of new methods for plastic, vascular, bile duct and bone surgery, and improvements in laser and magnetic diagnostics and therapy.

- Study of biochemical changes in the body, reliable laboratory and microbiology diagnostics methods, morphological and epidemiological peculiarities of viral hepatitis, its outcome and prevention.

- Development of methods to prevent and treat diseases which are caused by conventional pathogenic micro organisms.

- The clinical hospitals of our Academy act as a base for many leading multinational companies in the field of research and invention of new methods of treatment and drugs.