There are many distinguished scientists whose names are linked to the center’s history that created schools of science, and pioneered areas of research, that are well-known and recognized both in the country and around the world: the honorary academician N.F. Gamaleya, the founder of Russian medical microbiology, who made a substantial contribution to developing the field of epidemiology, and studies on antigens and the variability of microorganisms; Doctor F.M. Blumenthal, the founder of the scientific research institute, whose name is tightly linked to the origins and development of modern preventive healthcare, immunology, and oncology, who initiated the largest bacterial drug production system in Russia, and who helped create the system of standardization and control for medical biological agents; USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (USSR AMS) academician L.V. Gromashevskiy, the first director of the Central Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the founder of Russian epidemiology, author of a treatise on the mechanisms that transfer infections, and recognized authority on the processes of disinfection; academician E.N. Pavlovskiy, the creator of the concept of natural nidality for human diseases; USSR AMS academician L.A. Zilber, the author of the viral-genetic theory on the origins of tumors; academician V.D. Timakov, the first director of the scientific research institute as part of the USSR AMS and a major luminary in the Russian school of medical microbiology and bacterial genetics; Professor A.E. Gurvich, the creator of the principles of modern immunosorbent technologies; academician G.I. Abelev, a scientist who was the close friend and successor for the work done by L.A. Zilber, a world-famous scientist who created the immunochemical diagnosis field for cancer that laid down the foundations for modern-day oncoimmunology; USSR AMS academician M.A. Morozov, a leading specialist in smallpox and smallpox vaccinations; USSR AMS academician V.L. Troitskiy, the founder of radiation microbiology and immunology; USSR AMS academician Kh.Kh. Planelyes, a leading specialist in the area of experimental chemotherapy and the pathogenesis of infectious diseases; USSR AMS academician P.F. Zdrodovskiy, an eminent researcher in the area of infectious immunology and rickettsiology; USSR AMS academician, V.D. Solovyev, a leading specialist in the area of virology; USSR AMS academician O.V. Baroyan, a famous Soviet epidemiologist; USSR AMS academician S.V. Prozorovskiy, an eminent microbiologist, science organizer, and leading specialist in the study of mycoplasmas and L-form bacteria; USSR AMS academician A.G. Skavronskaya, a leading specialist in the field of microorganism genetics, and the principles for the vital activity of bacterial cells and their pathogenic action; USSR AMS corresponding member N.G. Olsufyev, a distinguished microbiologist; USSR AMS corresponding member F.F. Talyzin, a famous parasitologist and leading specialist in animal poisons; USSR AMS corresponding members P.A. Petrishcheva and N.I. Latyshev, leading specialists in the field of natural focal infections; Russian Academy of Medical Sciences corresponding member A.Ya. Fridenstein, a leading specialist in the area of immunohematology, and the stromal regulation of immunopoesis, who discovered bone marrow stromal stem cells; Professor L.N. Fontalin, a major luminary in the Russian school of immunological tolerance; Russian Academy of Medical Sciences corresponding member A.Ya. Kulberg, an eminent immunochemist and recognized authority on the issues involved in the structure and functions of antibodies; Russian Academy of Medical Sciences corresponding member V. Yu. Litvin, a famous epidemiologist and one of the authors of a treatise on sapronoses; Professor V.P. Kuznetsov, the creator of the world's first interferon drugs; Professor A.F. Moroz, a leading specialist in the field of conditionally pathogenic microflora and antibiotics.
Along with the names of USSR AMS academicians L.A. Zilber, V.D. Solovyev, M.A. Morozov, and O.V. Baroyan, whose fates are intertwined with the N.F. Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the legacy for the D.I. Ivanovskiy Institute of Virology is represented by the work accomplished by: USSR AMS academician A.A. Smorodintsev, who helped discover the tick-borne encephalitis virus, and who organized the Institute of Influenza in Leningrad, and became its first director; USSR AMS academician M.P. Chumakov, who also helped discover the tick-borne encephalitis virus, and who organized and became the first director of the Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis; USSR AMS corresponding member A.K. Shubladze, a participant in expeditions to the Russian Far East to establish the nature of tick-borne and Japanese encephalitis; USSR AMS academician V.M. Zhdanov, an outstanding epidemiologist and virologist, talented organizer in the Russian healthcare industry, the author of the global smallpox eradication program, and founder of the Russian school of science for molecular virology.
From among the ranks of distinguished Russian virologists who have worked at the D.I. Ivanovskiy Institute of Virology, those specialists that have made invaluable contributions to establishing and developing various fields in medical biological sciences, it would be remiss not to name: Professor A.T. Kravcheko, the institute’s first director; USSR AMS academicians P.G. Sergiyev and P.N. Kosyakov; USSR Academy of Sciences corresponding member V.L. Ryzhkov; Russian Academy of Sciences academician N.V. Kaverin; Russian Academy of Medical Sciences corresponding member A.G. Bukrinskaya. From 1987 to 2014, the institute was headed by Russian Academy of Sciences academician D.K. Lvov, who is now a lead research scientist, the director of the Department of Viral Ecology, and the one who created the Russian school of science for molecular ecology and viral population genetics.
The center’s history includes the names of six people with the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, 7 winners of the Lenin Prize, 34 winners of the national State Prize (four people were awarded the USSR State Prize twice), winners of the USSR Council of Ministers prize, the Russian Federation State Prize, and the Lenin Komsomol Prize, the winners of personal prizes awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the authors of seven registered discoveries.
In 1991, with the institute’s 100th anniversary, the workforce at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences N.F. Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology was marked by a welcome speech given by Russian Federation President B.N. Yeltsin.
1891
The private offices used for chemical microscopy and bacteriology by F.M. Blumenthal. Later transformed into the F.M. Blumenthal Private Chemical and Bacteriological Institute.
1919
Nationalized. Turned into the State (later on Central) Bacteriological Institute of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Healthcare.
1931
Central Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (TsIEM) of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Healthcare. Created by unification with the Central Bacteriological Institute at the Institute of Microbiology, and with epidemiological and disinfection departments at the Institute of Sanitary Hygiene.
1937
Transferred to the system under the USSR People's Commissariat of Healthcare.
1941
During the wartime period, TsIEM branches were set up in Alma-ata and Sverdlovsk. A large group of specialists was sent to work in Kazan.
1944
USSR AMS Institute of Bacteriology, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases. Created from the TsIEM laboratory network.
1945
USSR AMS Institute of Epidemiology, Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases. Created by consolidating a system of laboratories run by the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine and the clinical research facility at the S.P. Botkin Hospital.
1948
USSR AMS Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Stemmed from unification with the USSR Ministry of Healthcare TsIEM.
1949
USSR AMS Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya.
1966
USSR AMS (since 1992 the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences) Order of the Red Banner of Labor Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya.
2001
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences State Institution Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya.
2009
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Institution Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya.
2010
Federal Government Budgetary Institution Russian Federation Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development N. F. Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology
2012
Federal Government Budgetary Institution Russian Federation Ministry of Health N. F. Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology
2014
Federal Government Budgetary Institution Federal Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Formed through the unification of the N.F. Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and D.I. Ivanovskiy Scientific Research Institute of Virology.
2017
Federal Government Budgetary Institution National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.