V. A. CHERESHNEV

Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician and Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991–2001), Scientific Director of the Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. Founder, director of the Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003–2018). Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1999–2008), Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the V and VI convocations, Chairman of the Committee on Science and High Technologies (2007–2016). Author of more than 900 scientific publications, including 75 books and monographs: “Immunophysiology”, “Alpha-Fetoprotein”, “Immunological and Genetic Factors of Reproductive Dysfunction”, “Biological Laws and Human Vitality. Method of Multifunctional Restorative Biotherapy”, “Physiological and Hygienic Concept of Speleo- and Salt Therapy”, “The Influence of Drug Addiction on the Socio-Economic Development of Society”, “Social and Demographic Security of Russia”, “Demographic Policy of the Country and the Health of the Nation”, “Introduction to Simulation Issues and Managing the Dynamics of HIV Infection”, and others; a number of manuals on the study of combined radiation injuries and clinical immunology; 15 textbooks, 12 teaching aids, 5 guidelines; 2 atlases; 44 patents and 2 discoveries. President of the Russian Scientific Society of Immunology. Editor-in-Chief of the “Russian Journal of Immunology”, “Bulletin of the Ural Medical Academic Science”. Awarded a Letter of Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation, the Orders of Friendship, “For Merit to the Fatherland” IV and III class, Alexander Nevsky, the Medal “For Distinguished Labor”, Academician V. D. Timakov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences Gold Medal “For the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” UNESCO. Recipient of Russian Government prizes in the field of science and technology (twice) and in the field of education. Doctor Emeritus of St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences.