First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg

First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg
Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И. П. Павлова
MottoMedicina ars nobilissima!
TypeUniversity
Established1897
RectorСергей Фёдорович Багненко
DirectorDmitry Lioznov
Location
St. Petersburg
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Russia
CampusUrban
Websitewww.1spbgmu.ru
Building details

The Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University (Russian: Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И. П. Павлова, ПСПбГМУ им. акад. И. П. Павлова) is a medical school located in St. Petersburg.

History

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University in 1903

The Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University was founded in September 1897 as the Medical Institute for Women. Money from the family of Lydia Shanyavskaya, a women's rights activist, provided the financial resources to establish the institute. Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff, an alumna of the institute and a niece of Alfred Nobel,[1] also made a big donation in the initial years.

The University has changed names several times since then. It became the Women’s Medical Institute of St. Petersburg in 1918 and renamed as First Medical Institute of Leningrad in 1924. It was again renamed in 1936, in honour of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov.[1]

In 1994 the institute was upgraded to a medical university and inaugurated as Pavlov Saint Petersburg State Medical University. The word 'first' was reinstated into its name in 2013.[1]

During the interwar years, the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and Institute of Pediatrics were established as independent units.[1]

Research

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Then, Women's Medical Institute, established the second neurology-related department in the country in 1900 under the direction of Vladimir Bekhterev, who headed the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases until 1913. It was then divided into departments of psychiatry and neurology. Bekhterev's student M.P. Nikitin took charge of the latter from 1913 to 1937.[2]

Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University houses a number of research institutes:

  • Nephrology Research Institute
  • Research Institute of Pulmonology
  • Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Research Institute of Children's Oncology, Hematology and Transplantation
  • Maxillo-facial Surgery and Dentistry Research Institute
  • Valdman Institute of Pharmacology
  • Heart and Vascular Research Institute
  • Regional Research Centre of Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology
  • Scientific and Methodological Center for Molecular Medicine Russian Federation
  • Centre of early phases of clinical trials

Faculties

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Institute of Hematology and Transplantation at the University
Rector of the University Sergey Bagnenko with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Notable alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "History :: 1SPbGMU". Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  2. ^ Skoromets, A.A.; Akimenko, M.A. (2007-02-22). "The History of Neurology in St. Petersburg". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 16 (1–2): 90–99. doi:10.1080/09647040500539644. ISSN 0964-704X. PMID 17365555. S2CID 35227511.
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