Programme

A couple of hundred years ago, pneumonia and appendicitis were a fatal diagnosis and surgeons had no idea about the need to wash their hands before surgery. Medicine is moving forward alongside technological progress. Infectious disease epidemics are becoming a thing of the past, giving way to new, previously unknown diseases, for which neither treatment nor their consequences are yet fully understood. Today, advanced technologies not only allow for unique surgeries and diseases prevention, but also new treatments. One of the goals of the National Medicines Policy 2030 is to develop domestic innovative medicines. The development of a new medicine – from the idea to implementation – takes more than ten years and requires huge investments with high risks. Biomedical cell products (BMCP) have become a new driver for the global medicine market. Russia has already undertaken vast research and development in this field that might allow it to overtake the U.S. and the EU in terms of BMCP output over the next few decades. What are Russia’s priorities for developing new medicines? Which agency should manage the programme for the development of innovative medicines? What measures of state support and stimulus of commercialization are needed for the BMCP industry and the creation of innovative medicines? How attractive are investments in biomedical cell technologies? Will cell products become the ‘magic pill’ to combat 21st century diseases?

Moderator
Alexey Martynov, President, Association of Biomedical Cellular Products Manufacturers

Alexey Martynov

President, Association of Biomedical Cellular Products Manufacturers

Member of the Expert Council of the Business Projects Working Group of the Strategic Initiatives Agency
Member of the Commission on the pharmaceutical and medical industry of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Education
Moscow Medical Academy named after Sechenov.
Qualification: Doctor with a specialization in "General Medicine".
2003 – 2006 г. State Scientific Center of Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbsky.
Awarded specialty: "Psychiatrist".
2008 – 2012 г. the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration
Квалификация: Психолог. Преподаватель по специальности «Психология». Qualifications: Psychologist. The professor of "Psychology".
2009- 2010 г. International Academy of Acmeological Sciences
Effective interaction based on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) technology.
2009 - 2010 г. Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
"The psychological impact of professional activity."
2016 – 2018 "St. Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Master program "Regulation of the circulation of medicines in the pharmaceutical market"

Panellists
Andrei Belousov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Max Wegner, Senior Vice President, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer AG
Sergei Lukyanov, Rector, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Dmitry Morozov, General Director, BIOCAD
Mikhail Murashko, Head, Federal Service on Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor)
Alexey Repik, Chairman, Russian-Japanese Business Council; President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm
Veronika Skvortsova, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Guzel Ulumbekova, Head, Higher School of Healthcare Organization and Management
Yoshikazu Hayashi, Senior Executive Director, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
Sergey Tsyb, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Andrei Belousov

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Born March 17, 1959 in Moscow. Higher education. Graduated in 1981 from Lomonosov Moscow State University as a Cybernetics Economist. From 1981 to 1986, he worked as an intern researcher and junior research fellow of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute under the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1986 to 1990, he was a junior research fellow, a research fellow and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of Scientific and Technical Progress under the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1990 to 2006, he worked as a senior research fellow and head of the laboratory of the Institute for Economic Forecasting under the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2008, he was Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. In 2008, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. From 2008 to 2012, he was Director of the Department of Economics and Finances under the Government of the Russian Federation. From 2012 to 2013, he was Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Since June 24, 2013, he has been an Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. He holds the rank of an Active State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, first class. He is a doctor of economic sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the honorary title ‘Honoured Economist of the Russian Federation’. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Honour. He is married with one son.

Max Wegner

Senior Vice President, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer AG

Max leads the global Regulatory Affairs organization for Pharmaceuticals and is based in Wuppertal, Germany.
A pharmacist by training, Max studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. Max graduated as Dr. rer. nat. in 1996 at the Preclinical Institute of Pharmacology of Bayer AG, Wuppertal / University of Bonn with the title of his doctorial dissertation being “Pharmacological and biochemical evaluations with the Neutral Endopeptidase Inhibitors Ecadotril and (S)-Thiorphan“. In 1997 he was authorized for further education in „Drug Information“.
He is a lecturer of DGRA (Deutsche Gesellschaft Regulatory Affairs) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany as well as the Forum Institute (“FORUM Institut für Management GmbH”, Heidelberg, Germany).
He joined Bayer in 1996 as Global Regulatory Dossier Manager in Wuppertal with various responsibilities for Products of the Anti-Infectives group.
In 2000 Max became Global Project Manager within Global Strategic Marketing leading Anti-Infective projects.
Between 2002 and 2007 he served as Therapeutic Area Head in Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) being responsible for regulatory strategies worldwide.
2007 Max was named Vice President - Global Regulatory Affairs Head Hematology/Cardiology & Specialised Therapeutics and in 2008 he took over the responsibility as Global Regulatory Affairs Head International.
Starting in October 2009 he has been working for almost 5 years as Global Regulatory Affairs Head General Medicine where he built and set up a new General Medicine department within Global Regulatory Affairs.
Between April and September 2011 Max has been appointed interim Head GRA Asia, Beijing, Asia, and between November 2012 and July 2013 interim Head GRA US Montville, US, both positions while maintaining global General Medicine responsibilities.
In June 2014 Max was named Senior Vice President Therapeutic Area General Medicine and in 2017 the therapeutic area organisations Hematology and Ophthalmology have been added.
Since January 2018 Max leads the global Regulatory Affairs organization of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Health until it had been reintegrated into Consumer Health at the end of 2018, and is responsible for all regulatory strategies worldwide as well as maintenance activities and other projects.

Sergei Lukyanov

Rector, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Sergey Lukyanov graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985, majoring in Physiology. In 1986, started working at the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, rising in the ranks from Research Assistant to Head of Laboratory.
In 1994, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation ‘Cloning of a novel Xenopus homeobox gene XANF-1 by subtractive hybridization,’ which he completed at the Laboratory of Structure and Function of Human Genes under the supervision of Prof. Eugene D. Sverdlov. In 1999, he successfully defended his doctoral (DrSc) disseration ‘Selective suppression of polymerase chain reaction’ at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, advised by Prof. Eugene D. Sverdlov.
In 2003, he became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science and became a full Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011.
In 2010–2014, he received a mega grant from the Russian Government to create a fluorescent bio-imaging laboratory at Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy (now Privolzhsky Research Medical University). This laboratory became the foundation of the NNSMA Biomedical Technology Research Institute. In 2012–2013, served as Acting Assistant to the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation. In 2013–2015, was the Vice Rector of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU). He became Acting Rector on 29 April 2015 and was elected the Rector of RNRMU in 2016.
Over the course of his work, Lukyanov published more than 180 research papers in Russian and foreign journals (with an h-index of 58 and a ‘sum of times cited’ over 18,000 according to Web of Science) and patented 51 inventions.
In 2006, he was awared the Russian Academy of Sciences Ovchinnikov Prize for outstanding work in physicochemical biology and biotechnology for his paper ‘Fluorescent proteins: finding, investigation and use in biotechnology.’ In 2012, he was awarded the RUSNANOPRIZE Nanotechnology International Prize. In 2015, he was conferred the Russian Federation National Award in science and technology for the development and implementation of a technological complex for the analysis of compound genome structure and functions.

Dmitry Morozov

General Director, BIOCAD

DOB: 01.02.1965 | POB: Moscow | Marital status: married, 3 children

In 2001 he founded BIOCAD CJSC, the leading Russian innovative biotechnology company of the full cycle, which is the leader on the Russian oncological market by the results of 2017.

AWARDS:
• Gratitude from the Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovation of St. Petersburg for conscientious work and strengthening the scientific and production potential of St. Petersburg;
• Appreciation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for contribution to the development of the pharmaceutical and medical industry and long-term conscientious work;
• Gratitude from the Governor of St. Petersburg;
• Honorary sign "Investor of the Year" for the implementation of the best investment project in the sphere of industry in St. Petersburg;
• Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg for outstanding achievements in the field of higher and secondary vocational education in the nomination "In the field of integration of education, science and industry" for 2015;
• The Russian Government's Quality Award for achieving high results in the field of product and service quality and the introduction of high-quality methods of quality management for 2016;
• Member of the Subcommission on Drug Administration of the Government Commission for Health Protection;
• Member of the Expert Council for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia;
• Included in the Expert Council under the FAS Russia.

AWARDS 2017:
• St. Petersburg's "Investor of the Year" award for the implementation of the best investment project in the industry for 2017;
• The "TechUspech-2017" Prize;
• Joined the list of top managers in the pharmaceutical industry according to the version of the Top 100 project of the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper.

Mikhail Murashko

Head, Federal Service on Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor)

Born on January 9, 1967 in Sverdlovsk.
1986-1988 – served in the USSR Army.
1992 – graduated from Ural State Medical Institute.
August 1992 – March 1996 – intern; Obstetrician Gynecologist, Komi Republic Hospital in Syktyvkar.
March 1996 – November 1996 – Deputy Medical Superintendent for Consulting and Diagnostics, Medical Superintendent, Komi Republic Perinatal Center in Syktyvkar.
November 1996 – December 1999 – Medical Superintendent, Komi Republic Medical Group in Syktyvkar.
January 2000 – March 2006 - Medical Superintendent, Komi Republic Perinatal Center under Komi Republic Agency of Health Care, Syktyvkar.
March 2006 – February 2011 – Minister of Health Care, Komi Republic.
February 2011 – June 2012 – Head of Department, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department (offers a course of pediatrics), Kirov State Medical Academy under the Ministry of health Care of the Russian Federation, Syktyvkar.
July 2012 – March 2013 – Deputy Head, Federal Service for Health Care Supervision, Moscow.
July 2013 – July 2015 – acting Head, Federal Service for Health Care Supervision.
July 14, 2015 till present time – Head of the Federal Service for Health Care Supervision (has the title of the Full State 2-nd Class Counsellor of the Russian Federation).
1999 – Doctor of Medicine.
2004 – postgraduate degrees in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Public Health Care Administration.
Board certified in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Public Health Care Administration.
Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Human Health in the North Journal. Editorial Board Member, Children’s Health Care in the North West Journal.

Alexey Repik

Chairman, Russian-Japanese Business Council; President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm

Born in Moscow, Russia on 27 August 1979.Graduated from the State University “Higher School of Economics”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.Since 1995 in Healthcare and Pharmaceutics.R-Pharm Founder. President of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), actively participating in the improvement of investment climate in the Russian Federation and the establishment of the regional investment standard.Member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.Member of the Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy.Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of Commission on Investment Climate.Representative (public ombudsman) of the Commissioner of the Presidential Council on the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs on issues related to the protection of the rights of foreign investors.Board-member and Co-chairman of Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on pharmaceutical and medical industry.Co-Chairman of the National Rating CommitteeMember of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and technologies).Member of the Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives".

Veronika Skvortsova

Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Veronika Skvortsova was born in Moscow on November 1, 1960.
She graduated from the 2nd Pirogov Moscow State Medical Institute in 1983 and completed a Postgraduate Clinical Residency Programme and an Advanced Postgraduate Programme specializing in neuropathology. In 1994, she qualified as a higher category neurologist.
After graduating, she worked for the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute (the Russian State Medical University since 1991) for 25 years.
Veronika Skvortsova became head of one of Russia’s first neurology emergency services at Moscow’s 1st municipal hospital established on the basis of the neurology clinic of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute in 1989.
In 1989–1995, she served as assistant and, in 1995–1997, as assistant professor at the Neuropathology Department of the Russian State Medical University.
She became Head of the Fundamental and Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery Department in 1997.
Veronika Skvortsova was appointed Director of the Russian Stroke Research Institute in 2005.
She was Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Social Development from 2008 to 2012.
Veronika Skvortsova was appointed Minister of Healthcare by Presidential Executive Order No. 650 of May 21, 2012.
She is vice-president and co-founder of the National Stroke Association, director of the World Stroke Organization and secretary general of the European Stroke Council.
She is a Doctor of Medicine, Professor, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Veronika Skvortsova is an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
She has been awarded an Order of Honour and won the Pirogov Prize and Moscow Government Prize in Medicine.
She is the author of more than 400 research papers and holds seven patents for her inventions.

Guzel Ulumbekova

Head, Higher School of Healthcare Organization and Management

Head of the Higher School of Healthcare Organization and Management, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Medical Communities for the Quality of Medical Care and Medical Education.
Chairman of the Commission on Continuing Education of the National Medical Chamber, member of the Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia for Development of Continuing Medical and Pharmaceutical Education, member of the Board and Executive Secretary of the Russian Society for Healthcare Organization and Public Health.
Since 2003, she has been heavily involved in expert activities on healthcare organization at the Civic Chamber and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the State Duma Committee on Healthcare, the Strategic Research Centre of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the WHO Council for Evidence-Based Medicine, etc.
Guzel Ulumbekova is the author of the books Russia’s Healthcare. What Needs to Be Done (2010) and Russia’s Healthcare. What Needs to Be Done-2 (2015) and a textbook for medical schools Public Health and Healthcare (2011); she is a contributor to and a member of the editorial board of the national guide Public Health and Healthcare (2013).

Yoshikazu Hayashi

Senior Executive Director, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency

Sergey Tsyb

First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Date of birth: 29 April 1968
Place of birth: Obninsk, Kaluga Region
Education: Graduated from G.V. Plekhanov Russian Academy of the Economics, PhD in Economics
Work history:
1991–2007: Executive positions in various businesses
2007–2008: Director, Chemical Technology Complex and Bio-Engineering Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation
2008–2013: Director, Chemical Technology Complex and Bio-Engineering Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Since 2013: Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Awards:
2009: Mercy honorary badge from the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation
2011: Honorary Chemist title from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
2011: Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology for development and implementation of the scientific fundamentals of the national system of chemical product turnover safety
2015: Medal of the Service to the Motherland Order 2nd Degree
Civil rank: Full State Councillor of the Russian Federation, 1st Class

Front row participants
Alexey Belyaev, Director, National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Andrey Vasiliev, Director, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences
Petr Glybochko, Rector, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Kudlay, General Director, Generium
Vadim Merkulov, Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Gennady Suhih, Director, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Alexey Belyaev

Director, National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

D. M. Sc., Professor.
Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Since 2012 he is the Director of the Research Institute of Oncology.
Belyaev Aleksey Mikhaylovich is the main freelance oncologist of the Northwestern Federal District, Head of the Department of Oncology of the Mechnikov North-West State Medical University, Chairman of Oncologists Association of the Northwestern Federal District, Doctor of Medical Science, Professor.
Education:
1986 – graduated with honors and gold medal the “S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy.”
1992 – postgraduate studies in a military college (graduate work) at the “S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy”.
Research and practice activity:
1993 – passed the Ph.D. defense “Morphofunctional characteristics of soft tissues around of the gunshot wound (ballistic trauma)”
2004 – passed thesis for the doctor’s degree “Cytoreductive surgeries and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the complex treatment of common forms of abdominal cancer”.
Since 1998 he has been developing problems of care for patients with advanced forms of peritoneal cancer. Belyaev Aleksey Mikhaylovich is one of the first in Russia, who began to perform cytoreductive surgeries with chemohyperpyretic perfusions of abdominal cavity. He is awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Plaque “Excellent Worker of Public Health”, he has the Medal “For Merit to Domestic Health Care”.
Belyaev Aleksey Michaylovich is the author more than 200 research papers and one monograph. 10 Ph.D. defenses and 3 theses for a doctor degree were passed under his leadership.

Andrey Vasiliev

Director, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrey Vasilyev was born on 18 April 1961 in Moscow. He is a specialist in cellular mechanics of development and regeneration, tissue engineering, and cellular technology. Author of 128 scientific articles, monographies, and 18 patents. Academic advisor and consultant for 8 Ph.D. theses in Biology.
Post-doctoral degree in Biology. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 3rd class State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Expert in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
As of 1 September 2015, Director of the N.K. Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology (IDB), RAS. Head of the Embryology Department, School of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lecturer for the course ‘Cellular mechanisms of development and regeneration.’
Member of the Dissertation Board for the Institute of Developmental Biology and the School of Biology at Lomonsov Moscow State University.
Member of the Scientific Council, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; member of the Scientific and Technical Council, JSC RUSNANO; member of the ‘Biological Sciences’ Federal Academic Methodological Association.
Received Science/Interperiodical International Academic Publishing Company (Pleiades Publishing) award for best publication in a journal (2006). Awarded a Gold Medal by the Lavrentyev Institute of the RAS Siberian Branch for merits in the development of biology (2016).
Member of the Editorial Board for journals: RAS News: Biology Series, Ontogenesis, Molecular Medicine, Cellular Technology in Biology and Medicine. Member of the Editorial Board for Moscow University Bulletin: Biology Series.
Dr. Vasilyev is coauthored the following acts on the development of biomedical research in the Russian Federation: ‘Development strategies of medical science in the Russian Federation,’ approved by the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation on 28 December 2012, № 2580-р, and Public report on the development of Biomedicine in the Russian Federation (2015).
He is one of the principal developers of Federal Law № 180-FZ, ‘On biomedical cell products,” 23 June 2016, a range of legal acts on development, production, and application of biomedical cell products.
Awards: Prize Laureate of ‘Science/Interperiodical’ (Pleiades Publishing) for best publication in a journal (2006). Gold Medal by the Lavrentyev Institute of the RAS Siberian Branch for merits in the development of biology (2016). Letters of recognition from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (2014, 2015).

Petr Glybochko

Rector, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Kudlay

General Director, Generium

MD, professor
Academic background
University: Medical University, Novosibirsk
Department and Qualification: General medicine, doctor
Professional background
1996 - 1999 – Director, the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Novosibirsk
2000 - 2004 – Managing positions in Marketing & Promotion, Russian pharmaceutical industry
2004 - 2013 – Deputy General Director (Marketing & Promotion), PHARMSTANDARD (the largest Russian pharmaceutical company)
2013 - present – General director, GENERIUM
Membership and Awards
• Member of the Government Subcommittee on the Circulation of Medicines
• Member of the working group on the Eurasian Economic Commission drug market, MoH
• Member of the Expert Council for the Development of Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry, Ministry of Industry and Trade
• Member of European Respiratory Society
• Winner of the Russian Federation Government Award
Dmitry Kudlay is the author of more than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed Russian and foreign publications.

Vadim Merkulov

Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Molecular Biology
Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise, Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Born in 1970 in Bryansk. In 1994, Dr. Merkulov graduated from Smolensk State Medical Institute. After graduation, he served in the Russian Armed Forces.
Scope of scientific interest:
Expert study of pharmaceuticals, molecular biology; molecular diagnostics of viral infections; research of antiviral agents using genetic engineering techniques; experimental immunology. Dr. Merkulov is a developer of diagnostic products for detection of several causative agents of particularly dangerous viral infections, as well as routine treatment for influenza. He authored more than 100 scientific papers and holds 9 patents.

Career:

• Dr. Merkulov held research positions while serving in the Russian Armed Forces.
• Since 2008: part-time Professor of the Department of Medical Nanobiotechnology at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.
• 2010–2015: First Deputy Director General at the Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
• Since 2015: Deputy Director General for Drug Expertise at the Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

Gennady Suhih

Director, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Gennady T. Sukhikh was born on 4 May 1947 in Orenburg, Russia. In 1971, he graduated from the Orenburg State Medical Institute with honors. In 1974, he defended his PhD thesis “Individual differences and regularity of anatomic structure of extramedullar spinal veins”.
From 1981 to 1986, G. Sukhikh worked as a Senior Researcher in the Research Institute for Pathology and Physiopathology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1985, he defended his doctoral thesis “Mechanisms of stress related disorders of natural resistant cells and approaches to their correction”.
From 1986 to 2007, he was the head of the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology of the Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology. In 1993 he was awarded the title of Professor, in 1997 he was elected as a Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and in 2005 – Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2007 Professor Sukhikh holds the position of the Director of the National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia – the leading institution in the Russian Federation, carrying out extensive research, clinical, educational and coordinating work, and the headquarters of the Russian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and of the major national Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Research interests of academician Sukhikh cover a wide range of the priority trends of the modern reproductive medicine and biology. He is one of the first scientists in Russia, who started studying the possibilities of application of stem cells for therapeutic purposes. In recent years, the interests of academician Sukhikh cover a wide range of problems on organization of healthcare and medical science, perinatal medicine, reproductology, and molecular biology.
Gennady Sukhikh is the author of more than 900 scientific papers, 15 monographs; he possesses 19 patents. In 2008 in accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Gennady Sukhikh was awarded the honorary title “Honored Master of Science of the Russian Federation”.
G. Sukhikh was the Order for Services to the Fatherland of the IVth and IIIrd Degrees (2012, 2014) and Order of Alexander Nevsky (2017).