At the premises of the Department of Biological Chemistry of KSMU, on May 24, 2022, the First International Scientific and Practical online Conference “PROKOPENKOV READINGS” was held, dedicated to the memory and 90th anniversary of the birth of Professor Leonid Georgievich Prokopenko. The conference is organized by Kursk State Medical University and Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health.
The conference was attended by scientists from 4 independent states: the Russian Federation, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Republic of Belarus and the Donetsk People’s Republic. Employees and students of Kursk State Medical University, Ferghana Medical Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Belarusian State Medical University of the Republic of Belarus, I.M. First Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov, V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Center, Kazan State Medical University of the Republic of Tatarstan, N.P. Ogarev National Research Mordovian State University of the Republic of Mordovia, I.S. Turgenev Orel State University Medical Institute, Novosibirsk State Medical University presented the results of their research in the form of reports and articles.
The rector of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Akmal Abdukakharovich Sidikov and Vice-Rector for Research and Innovative Development of Kursk State Medical University, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Lipatov addressed the participants of the conference with a welcoming speech.
The head of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Continuing Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Svetlana A. Dolgareva made a report on the topic “Leonid Georgievich Prokopenko and his life’s work (on the 90th anniversary of the scientist’s birth). The memory of his disciples.” The speaker noted the huge contribution of Professor L.G. Prokopenko to the development of the Kursk Scientific Biochemical School. Leonid Georgievich Prokopenko devoted his whole life to science. In 1957 he graduated with honors from the medical faculty of the Kursk Medical Institute. He remained a postgraduate student at the Department of Biochemistry, defended his PhD thesis in the 61st year, and 6 years later defended his doctoral dissertation. In connection with the opening of the Faculty of Pharmacy at KSMU in 1966, L.G. Prokopenko was elected the first Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy. L. G. Prokopenko was the organizer of the pharmaceutical faculty and the first head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. From 1970 to 1973 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. For more than 40 years, from 1970 to 2011, Professor L.G. Prokopenko was the head of the Department of Biological Chemistry of KSMU. And from 2011 until the last days of his life he worked at the Department of Biological Chemistry as a professor. L.G. Prokopenko is the author of more than five hundred scientific papers, including two scientific discoveries. Under his leadership, 19 doctors and 45 candidates of medical and biological sciences were trained. Prokopenko was awarded the medal of the Order “For Services to the Fatherland” of the II degree, the badge “Excellent Healthcare Worker”, the commemorative badge “For Works and the Fatherland”, the medal “The Best People of Russia”, the commemorative medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences “To the Author of a scientific discovery”, included in the encyclopedia “The Best People of Russia”.
Leonid Georgievich left a bright mark in the history of the university and was remembered as a talented scientist and leader, a sympathetic colleague and teacher for many participants of the conference.
13 scientific reports were heard and discussed at the conference:
Leonid Georgievich Prokopenko and his life’s work (on the 90th anniversary of the scientist’s birth). The memory of his students.
Speaker: Svetlana A. Dolgareva – Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Continuing Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Study of immunogenesis and hematopoiesis in animals with toxic hepatitis and ways of their correction with herbal preparations
Speaker: Rasulev Fozil Hasanovich – Head of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Virology of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Correction of the immune response and hematopoiesis with herbal preparations for hemolytic anemia
Speaker: Rasulov Ulugbek Mukimovich – Assistant of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Virology of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health
Correction of immunogenesis and hematopoiesis in irradiated animals and ways of their correction using herbal preparations
Speaker: Teshaboev Azizjon Mahammadalievich – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Virology of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health
Evaluation of the activation properties of granular hemosorbents by the reaction of leukocytes and platelets of human venous blood in vitro
Speaker: Grischuk Ivan Vitalievich – laboratory researcher, postgraduate student of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “NMIC named after V. A. Almazov” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Protein-lipid composition of the membrane and erythrocyte metabolism in chronic endometritis
Speaker: Olga A. Sunyakina – Associate Professor of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Disorders of redox homeostasis as a pathogenetic basis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Speaker: Yulia Eduardovna Azarova – Associate Professor of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolomics, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Evaluation of the relationship between the concentrations of tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases and other serum parameters of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at different stages of disease compensation
Speaker: Zubova Anna Vladimirovna – Senior Lecturer of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Novosibirsk State Medical University, Candidate of Biological Sciences
Pharmacological correction of violations of the functional and metabolic activity of hepatocytes in acute destructive pancreatitis against the background of chronic alcohol intoxication
Speakers: Olga N. Bushmina – Senior Lecturer of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Deputy Head of the Department of Education of the International Medical Institute, Candidate of Biological Sciences; Svetlana A. Dolgareva – Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Continuing Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Investigation of hepatotropic activity of modern regulatory peptides
Speakers: Anna A. Chulanova – Assistant of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University; Mikhail Y. Smakhtin – Professor of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
The effect of the insecticide Baton EU on the biochemical parameters of blood and the possibility of correcting metabolism in the liver
Speakers: Akhadzhonov Mavlonjon Makhmudjon ugli – Senior Lecturer of the Department of Medical and Biological Chemistry of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health; Mamasaidov Zhamolidin Turginbaevich – Head of the Department of Nursing of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health, Candidate of Medical Sciences; Marupova Manzura Aminovna – Head of the Department of Medical and Biological Chemistry of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor
Erythrocytes as targets of immunomodulation
Speaker: Svetlana A. Dolgareva – Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry of Kursk State Medical University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Continuing Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor
Reaction of monocytes in interaction with solid-phase hemocontact drugs
Speaker: Abdullina Laysan Uralovna – 2nd year student of the Institute of Medical Education of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “NMIC named after V. A. Almazov” of the Ministry of Health of Russia
According to the unanimous opinion of the organizers and participants, the conference was held in a fruitful and creative discussion, in an atmosphere of constructive dialogue and exchange of experience and opinions. 292 participants joined the ZOOM conference. Students and staff of the Fergana Medical Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the number of 115 people joined the ZOOM conference from the conference hall of their institute. The total number of conference participants who listened and participated in the discussion of reports reached 407 people.