The Scientific center will be headed by a Nobel Prize winner from Switzerland
To the Urals, chop wood
Professor Zinkernagel will conduct research in the field of experimental immunology – one of the most dynamically developing areas of medical knowledge.
The professor got acquainted with Russia in 2003, when leading foreign and Russian immunologists traveled from Moscow through Siberia to the Far East on a special "enlightenment" train with seminars and lectures. The idea of the scientific expedition "Immunity – protection of Life" belonged to Professor Zinkernagel and Valery Chereshnev, Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who shares his scientific interests. The passengers of the "propaganda train" met with local experts, discussed the latest developments.
The truth, according to the scientist, is born in the free exchange of scientific opinions: the professor actively promotes the development of international cooperation in the field of immunology and, in particular, has been working with Russian scientists for many years. In 2001, he became an Honorary Doctor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He was offered a leadership position at the scientific center in the Urals at the end of last year at the international conference of immunologists in Yekaterinburg, where more than 500 specialists from all over the world gathered. The professor's lecture "Viruses teach us immunity" became a bright event: he told how viruses deceive the human immune system, forcing it to "nurture" infected cells and destroy healthy ones, and also stressed the need for vaccinations:
– The stability of immune memory is a wonderful, but still an abstract idea, a laboratory artifact. Humanity has been "hooked" on vaccinations against dangerous infections for a long time, the genome has managed to adapt to them. Therefore, it is necessary to "refresh" the immune memory by conducting a revaccination.
– His self–control, ability to talk to any audience, inexhaustible curiosity – all this is fully manifested during his speeches, - academician Valery Chereshnev tells about Zinkernagel. – The auditoriums where he speaks are crowded, young scientists and students fill all the aisles and listen to him standing up...
Successful international cooperation proves that science has no borders and no sanctions can ban it.
– In order to strengthen the immune system, in the cold Ural weather, you should exercise, by all means eat right – not in fast food, but at your grandmother's. In the Urals, you can still chop wood," advises Professor Zinkernagel with a smile.
The professor is not the first world–renowned scientist who cooperates with the university. For example, French Professor Jean Juzel, a Nobel Prize winner, works in the laboratory of climate physics, and the laboratory of traditional archaeography is headed by Professor of the Sorbonne, Knight of the Legion of Honor Marie-Pierre Rey.
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