Օn October 26, YSMU hosted an international conference titled “Let’s Help Armenia fight against Alzheimer’s Disease Problems”, aimed at helping to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease in Armenia. Today there are more than 50 million people with Alzheimer’s disease in the world. The disease emerges after the age of 60, mostly between 75 and 84 years. As Alzheimer’s disease is incurable, main treatment is the improvement of life quality of patients.
26/10/2018Member of the Central Board of the Armenian General Benevolent Union, renowned physician, philanthropist Levon Nazaryan together with YSMU Rector Armen Muradyan and YSMU Vice Rector for Clinical Affairs Armen Minasyan visited university hospitals.
Nobel Prize laureates Ben Feringa and Frederic Stoddart were present at YSMU . The professors are renowned scientists in the field of chemistry. The Trio, composed of Ben Ferguson, Frederic Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Suwage, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on the design and synthesis of molecular chains in 2016.
Prof. Ben L. Feringa and Prof. J. Fraser Stoddart are some of the worldwide prominent scientists in the field of chemistry. Sir Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa together with together with Jean P. Sauvage formed a golden trio and won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2016. They earned the Nobel prize for their work on the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
At the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi a special meeting of the Scientific Council was convened, during which the Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Medical Nano biotechnology at the University of Pirogov Vladimir Chekhonin was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of YSMU.
YSMU Vice Rector on Scientific Affairs, Professor Konstantin Yenkoyan, visited a number of Polish research institutes and universities on an official visit.The first visit was to the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology.
Professor of the Department of Biochemistry Konstantin Enkoyan and Assistant Professor Katarineh Fereshetyan participated in the 31st Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, during which they presented their work on Alzheimer's disease and autism conducted at the Neurology Laboratory of YSMU.