Aleksandr Bogomolets


Alexander Alexandrovich Bogomolets was a Ukrainian pathophysiologist.
His father was the physician and revolutionary Alexander M. Bogomolets.
He was president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of clinical Physiology in Kiev. His laboratories were located in Georgia, where he had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences. According to Zhores Medvedev, this was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental Institute to study the extension of life expectancy. He developed antireticular cytotoxic serum.

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