INFECTION PREVENTION IN RUSSIA

Alexey Tutelyan was born in 1965 in Moscow. In 1988, he graduated from the Sanitary and Hygienic Faculty of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (later First Moscow State Medical University), after which he began his career as a research trainee at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of the USSR (currently Federal Budget Institution of Science “Central Research Institute of Epidemiology” of the Federal Supervisory Service for Customers’ Rights and Public Welfare), where he has spent nearly 30 years, rising to the position of head of laboratory. In 1993, he defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis and then, in 2004, his doctoral thesis on topical issues of peptide regulation of immune response. Since 2011, he has been head of the Department of Molecular Immunology, Infectology and Pharmacotherapy of the Dmitry Rogachev National Research Centre of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Immunology. A. Tutelyan’s recent scientific interests have been focused on the study of molecular and cellular mechanisms for formation of infectious agent resistance to antibiotics and disinfectants.
A.V. Tutelyan is a laureate of the Prize in the field of science and technology for 1999 awarded by the Government of the Russian Federation, author of over 150 scientific papers and four patents, he is a member of the expert council for preventive medicine of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, board member of the Russian Scientific Society of Immunologists, editorial board member of such magazines as “Allergology and Immunology”, “Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Current Issues” and “Questions of Virology”, expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is married and has two children.