Scientific conference with international participation devoted to the 10 year anniversary of UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology.
Kharkov, Ukraine, November 26^th-28^th, 2008

General Information

The UNESCO Chair, established in October 1998 by a mutual decision of the UNESCO and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, has greatly contributed to the development of scientific directions in cryobiology and cryomedicine.

Young scientists, specialising in cryobiology and cryomedicine are involved in the Chair activity. Most of their investigations are the unique, interdisciplinary and interstate ones. The scientific contacts between the Chair and Research Centers have been established in many countries of the Western Europe.

Recent scientific works are devoted to fundamental problems of cryodamage and cryoprotection in biological objects of different organisation level, to studying the cryoresistance and cold adaptation: designing the cryoprotective media and technologies, providing the possibility for reversible life arrest after freezing and storing under deep cold conditions with the aim of human, rare and endangered animal and plant species gene fund preservation and creating novel cryosurgical methods.

Of special interest are the investigations of stem cells properties, oriented to reveal the action mechanisms of low temperature effect on their self-reproduction, differentiation regulation, plasticity, production of stage-specific regulators, their being in demand as biological object for solving a wide range of medical and biological problems.

Progress in cryogenic technologies significantly increases the interest of practical medicine in low extreme temperature therapeutic usage for a combined treatment of patients with some diseases, in a primarily necessity of performing fundamental research of low temperature effect on functional systems of organism, aiming to elaborate the novel, high-efficient methods for extreme cryotherapy.

All the mentioned above tasks of cryobiology and cryomedicine are planned for discussion at conference sessions.

you can ask

Prof. Georgiy Babijchuk by e-mail cryo@online.kharkov.ua

Conference is organised by:
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine
National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO
UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology
Coordinating Center for Transplantation of Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine
Kharkov National Medical University