The Chair activity is based on UNESCO principles, supported by the Presidium of National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine and Committee on UNESCO Affairs in Ukraine.

The main aim of the Chair establishment is the support of international and national fundamental researches in cryobiology and cryomedicine. Tight scientific contacts between the Chair and leading research biological and medical world centres allow to conduct regularly the exchange of specialists, contribute to a dissemination of knowledge in the field of cryobiology and cryomedicine and teaching the foreign post-graduate students. In the work at the Chair mainly young scientists and experts in various fields of biology, medicine and relative sciences are involved, that allows the performing of unique interdisciplinary studies.

Scientific direction of the Chair is the development of modern and improvement of existing cryopreservation techniques for biological objects of various organisation levels, meeting the world standards, and their long-term storage in Low-Temperature Bank of biological objects, being the part of the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology & Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, with keeping all the requirements of European Association of Tissue Banks. To the base of used cryopreservation methods there was laid the world experience of long-term storage of biological objects, as well as developments of the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology & Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, scientific topic of which is the study of low temperature effect on biological objects.

A special attention is paid to the establishment of cryobanks of organs, tissues and cells of humans and animals, gene fond of rare and endangered species of plants and animals, designing of new medicines.

One of the priority directions of the Chair activity is versatile exchange of scientific information to introduce the obtained knowledge and experience into practice with the aim of the improvement of health and life quality of the population.

The Chair constantly contributes to an increase of professional level of its collaborators by assisting them in finding the possibilities of training in leading R&D centres of Europe and those of funding for participation in international scientific conferences, symposia, congresses, workshops.

Nowadays the UNESCO Chair comprises 15 professors, 20 candidates of sciences and 28 post-graduate students of the following departments of the Institute: