YSMU Professor Karine Tokhunts has been selected as an Ambassador of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG).
31/07/2023The last day of the 15th Asian Congress of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) at YSMU was full of meetings, discussions, experience exchanges.
Within the framework of the “Neuroscience Week” event Yerevan State Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi hosted the Closing Conference of EU HORIZON 2020 COBRAIN Project – “Armenia Center for Translational Research on Chronic Neurodegenerative Disorders: Neuroscience Initiative on Maintaining Healthy Brain Ageing”. “COBRAIN” is the first EU HORIZON 2020 program in Armenia, coordinated by YSMU.
On March 11, the Department of Medical Genetics of YSMU and the Center for Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care organized the 3rd practical conference on “Practical Aspects of Medical Genetics”.
Previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes, but vaccination seems to reduce this risk, show research findings from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles https://bit.ly/3S4DDsM.
The three-day meeting of the SAFEMED+ project of the European Union started at the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi.
The article “Overview of Cancer Control in Armenia and Policy Implications” by YSMU specialists, which was published in 2022 in the famous scientific journal “Frontiers in Oncology” (impact factor 5.7), was recognized as the most reviewed of the year.
The delegation of Tbilisi State Medical University was invited to attend the meeting of Scientific Council of the Yerevan State Medical University. Professor Zurab Vadachkoria, Rector of Tbilisi State Medical University, was nominated for the title of YSMU Honorary Doctor.
The members of the COBRAIN Advisory Board – Zaven Khachaturyan, the President of the “Prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2020” organization, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Alzheimer's & Dementia”; Alan Kaluef, the Director of the ZENEREI research center, the Head of the Neurology and Pharmacology Laboratory, Professor of neuroscience; and Jasek Jaworski, the Deputy-Head of Science at the International Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, head of the laboratory, expert in molecular and cellular neurobiology – joined the ranks of Visiting Professors of Yerevan State Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi.