Первый Санкт-Петербургский государственный медицинский университет имени академика И. П. Павлова | |
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| Motto | Medicina ars nobilissima! |
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| Type | University |
| Established | 1897 |
| Rector | Сергей Фёдорович Багненко |
| Location | , Russia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.1spbgmu.ru |
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The First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg (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
The Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University was founded in 1897 as the Medical Institute for Women. The University has changed names several times since then: It became known as The First Medical Institute of Leningrad in 1924. In 1936, the institute was renamed in honor of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov. In 1994, the institute was reorganized as a medical university.
In the 1930s, the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy and the Institute of Pediatrics were spun off as independent institutions.
Research
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
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Sports Medicine
- Faculty of Adapted Physical Education
- Faculty of Pediatrics
- Faculty of Clinical Psychology
- Faculty for International student
- Faculty of Graduate Education in Nursing
- Institute of Nursing
- Faculty of Postgraduate Education
- Faculty of Pre-University Course
Notable alumni
- Pyotr Anokhin (1898-1974), biologist and physiologist, author of Theory of Functional Systems
- Natalia Bekhtereva (1924-2008), neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology
- Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff (1881-1973), physician and philanthropist and member of the Nobel family
- Alexander Rosenbaum doctor, poet, composer, singer and actor
- Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), human rights activist
- Vasily Aksyonov (1932-2009), a writer of novels
- Ilya Averbakh (1934-1986), film director, screenwriter
- Sofiya Lisovskaia, Russian urologist
- Tumani Corrah, Gambian clinician scientist researching tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria
- Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk (1877-1945), Ukrainian physician, writer, and translator
- Gulsum Asfendiyarova (1880-1937), one of the first Kazakh woman medical doctors
(Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, former heath minister of South Africa