100 outstanding graduates (Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets)

Oleksandr Bohomolets was a Soviet pathophysiologist and public figure, academician and vice president of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, AMS of the USSR, the winner of the Stalin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor.
First, O.O. Bohomolets entered the University of Kyiv, Faculty of Law, but soon transferred to the Faculty of Medicine at Novorossiysk University, graduating from it with honors in 1907.
Prominent scientists such as V.V. Podvysotsky, L.O. Tarasevych, M.G. Ushinskiy, V.V. Voronin contributed to the choice of pathophysiology as the direction for his further work.
Three years after graduating from the medical faculty, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych defended his doctoral dissertation, which was based on the scientific work he had carried out in the second year of the university under the direction of Professor Podvysotsky.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets was trained for the professor’s activity at the Physiological Laboratory of Sorbonne. After returning to the Motherland, he headed the Department of Pathophysiology at Saratov University, and then was transferred to the Second Moscow State University. It was there that he wrote a number of monographs, created several scientific laboratories, was one of the organizers and the permanent scientific director of the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion of the Ministry of Health of the USSR.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets created the doctrine of the interaction of a tumor and the organism, and this fundamentally changed the existing at that time idea of tumor growth. He was the first to focus on the role of the body’s resistance, as an antitumor mechanism.
Under Bohomolets’s leadership, a unique method of donor blood conservation was developed, which is still being applied. At the same time O.O. Bohomolets and his students established the universal donor nature of the first group of blood. Oleksandr Oleksandrovych continued to head the Institute until 1931, at the same time being the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
The works of Bohomolets are devoted to the most important issues of Pathological Physiology, Endocrinology, Autonomic Nervous System, doctrine of constitution and diathesis, Oncology, Physiology and Pathology of connective tissue, and problems of longevity.
Bohomolets developed an effective method of influencing the connective tissue of an anti-reticulum cytotoxic serum (ACC), which was used during the war to accelerate the processes of fractured bones and damaged soft tissues healing.
O.O. Bohomolets developed a theory that explains the mechanism of blood transfusion by colloidal shock (a shock from damage to colloids). He created a large school of Pathophysiology.
In 1931 O.O. Bohomolets was elected the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, in connection with which he moved to Kiev, where he organized the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology in the future. At the same time, he was awarded the State Prize of the I degree for writing a manual on Pathological Physiology. In 1944, the professor was awarded the title a Hero of Socialist Labor.
The name of Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets was given to: The National Medical University (Kiev), Institute of Physiology named after Bohomolets, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, streets in such cities as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv.
We are very proud that such an outstanding scientist got his first knowledge and made the first steps in the field of medicine at our university.