Head of the department- virologist, Tatyana A. Tupoleva, Doctor of Medical Sciences The department functions as part of the Division of Transfusiology.
The history of the department originates from the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Preventionof Viral Hepatitis and AIDS (more details).
The department exists in its present form since 2022
The main duty of the department is to ensure the viral safety of blood transfusions and its components; the development and implementation of the latest approaches, methods and technologies for testing for markers of viral infections; the study of mono- and combined viral infections in patients with secondary immunodeficiency (patients with diseases of the blood system) against the background of the use of standard and new types of therapy.
Currently, the department:
- examines donors for infectious markers
- controls procurement conditions and sterility of donor blood components
- examines the patients of the NMRC for Hematology for infectious markers
- ensures a minimum level of risk of transfusion transmission of viral infections
KEY EMPLOYEES
Anna A. Gulyaeva- bacteriologist (SPIN code: 6467-9416, AuthorID: 713517). Anna Gulyaeva graduated from the medical faculty of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute named after N. I. Pirogov (1972). She has been working at the NMRC for Hematology since 1972: first as an intern researcher in the Cytological Laboratory, then as a junior researcher in the Laboratory of Blood and Donation Services, and later as a bacteriologist in the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Prevention of Viral Hepatitis and AIDS. From 2000-2022 head of the Blood Control Unit for viral hepatitis, AIDS, syphilis of the Department of Blood Procurement and its Components.
Oksana G. Starkova - Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics (SPIN code: 4228-3833, AuthorID: 835375, ORCID: 0000-0003-1480-6139)
Ruslan R. Abakarov - leading specialist (SPIN code: 7053-4373, AuthorID: 832281, ORCID:0000-0002-0650-2779)
Elena N. Ovchinnikovais- biologist (SPIN code: 8677-9032, AuthorID: 880975)
Tatiana A. Soldatova- Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics (ORCID: 0000-0002- 6320-4241)
Olga N. Misko- biologist (SPIN code: 8936-1819, AuthorID: 879735, ORCID: 0000-0002- 4728-2610)
Anastasia U. Krylova- Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics