On November 22, 2024, the Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Microbiology and Biological Chemistry of the National University of Pharmacy hosted the II Scientific and Practical Distance Conference
‘MODERN ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY: PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF IMPROVEMENT’
The conference topics included topical issues of pharmaceutical microbiology, prospects for the development of antimicrobial drugs and their use in medical practice, study of antibiotic resistance of microorganisms and identification of ways to overcome it, clinical pathophysiology of infectious diseases, epidemiology of infectious diseases in modern conditions, clinical immunology and allergology, immunological, virological, molecular genetic studies in laboratory diagnostics, a modern view of the correction of immunopathological conditions, prospects for the development of immunobiological drugs. The materials of the scientific and practical conference also addressed issues of modern biotechnology, microbiological aspects of phytopathology, pharmacological correction of infectious pathology, preclinical studies, pharmaceutical care in the use of antimicrobial drugs, the role of the pharmacist (clinical pharmacist) in ensuring the rational use of medicines, optimisation of technological processes for the creation of drugs for chemotherapy and chemoprophylaxis of infectious diseases, genetics of microorganisms, teaching microbiology, etc.
Of particular interest were the issues of SARS-COV2 variability and its consequences, COVID-19 complications, especially among patients with varicose veins of the lower extremities, and the current range of vaccines against COVID-19.
The conference was attended by 85 scientists, teachers and students from 22 institutions and organisations from Kharkiv (National University of Pharmacy, State Institution ‘I.I. Mechnikov Institute of Microbiology and Immunology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Dermatology and Venereology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv National Medical University, Educational and Research Medical Institute of the National Technical University ‘Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute’, State Scientific Institution Scientific and Technological Complex ‘Institute of Single Crystals’ of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 13 of Kharkiv City Council, SI ‘IMI of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine’),
м. Lviv (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Danylo Halytskyi National Medical University of Lviv, Institute of Cell Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University, Western Ukrainian Specialised Children’s Medical Centre, Outpatient Clinic of General Practice of Family Medicine, V. Syniovydne, Stryi district, Lviv region);
м. Kyiv (D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Bogomolets National Medical University; National University of Food Technologies, M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, National Academy of Science of Ukraine);
м. Chernivtsi (Bukovinian State Medical University);
Ternopil, Ukraine (Gorbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University).
Słupsk, Poland (Regional Centre for Blood Donation and Blood Treatment named after John Paul II in Słupsk; Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk);
We thank all our colleagues for finding the opportunity to participate in the conference. We hope for a long and fruitful scientific cooperation!
