Secretary for West of the Ministry of External Affairs of India Sanjay Verma, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Armenia Kishan Dan Dewal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Mnatsakan Safaryan and representatives of the Embassy visited YSMU.

In 2019, the 3 departments of pediatric oncology and hematology operating in Armenia were united under the vaults of the R. A. Yeolyan Hematology Center and the Children's Oncology and Hematology Center of Armenia was created, the oncology unit of which was headed by Lilit Sargsyan, a doctor, lecturer of the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of YSMU.

YSMU students, in parallel with medical education, carrying out active activities in cultural life, become an inspiring example both for students and for the broad strata of society.Besides being enriched with professional knowledge many students are professionals in other fields as well.Third-year student of the Faculty of General Medicine of YSMU Artyom Khachatryan is among those who have been interested in science since childhood, participates in translation work, introducing world bestsellers to the public in their native language.

YSMU COBRAIN , as part of the information day of the ADVANCE STEM research grant program, hosted Apkar Apkarian, Director of the Apkarian Foundation, Professor of Neurology, Anesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, director of the Center for Translational Pain Research at the Feinberg Medical School of Northwestern University.After the visit, which has become a pleasant tradition, the professor met with Fast, the Apkarian Foundation operating under his leadership and YSMU applicants and young researchers of the neuroscience research project within the framework of the ADVANCE STEM grant program at the “COBRAIN” scientific-Educational Center for Fundamental Brain Research.

Dear medical workers!
I congratulate you on your professional holiday.

June 14 was special at Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi․ The honorary guest of the 100-year-old forge of future doctors was Ardem Patapoutian, the first Nobel Prize winner of Armenian origin, the prominent Armenian-American scientist, the molecular biologist-neurobiologist, the professor at the Doris Center for Neurology at the Scripps Research Institute in California, and a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 

The solemn session of the YSMU Academic Council was dedicated to Ardem Patapoutian, the first Armenian laureate of the 2021 Nobel Prize, the prominent Armenian-American scientist, the molecular biologist-neurobiologist, the professor at the Doris Center for Neurology at the Scripps Research Institute in California, and a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Within the framework of the European Union Erasmus + project SAFEMED (Simulation in Undergraduate MEDical Education for Improvement of SAFEty and Quality of Patient Care) project, YSMU specialists held working meetings with representatives of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and the University of Catania in Italy.