Institute staff took part in the XVI Annual All-Russian Congress on Infectious Diseases

27  03.2024 On March 25-27, 2024, the XVI Annual All-Russian Congress on Infectious Diseases named after. Academician V.I. Pokrovsky with international participation, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the 95th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian scientist, organizer of medical science and practice, prominent public figure Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky.

Over the three days of the congress, 68 symposia and 4 special lectures were held, in which 310 reports were presented. The Congress was attended by managers, leading specialists from research institutes of Rospotrebnadzor and many other figures in domestic science and healthcare. In total, over 4 thousand people registered for the congress.
Director of the Institute, Doctor of Medical Sciences Natalya Nikolaevna Zaitseva was a member of the presidium of the symposium “Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases,” during which she made a report on the topic “Molecular genetic diversity of the Epstein–Barr virus in adult HIV-infected patients,” and a member of the commission of the Young Scientists Competition.
Presentations at the Congress from the Institute were also made by 2 employees of the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Viral Infections of the Institute: Senior Researcher, Ph.D. N.V. Epifanova, who, in addition, acted as a member of the presidium of the symposium “Intestinal infections in clinical practice”, and junior researcher. S.V. Oparina is a participant in the Young Scientists Competition for the best report (report in poster format).