Left to right: Prof. G.F. Lang, Prof. T.S. Istamanova,
Prof. V.A. Almazov, Prof. E.V. Shlyakhto
Clinical and experimental haematology at the St. Petersburg I. Pavlov State Medical
University (formerly, 1st Medical Institute) followed traditional routes characteristic to
similar studies in the world, i.e., in clinical aspect, introduction of standard therapeutic
protocols evolved to more intensive strategies including hematopoietic stem cell
transplantation. Clinical research progressed from plain morphology and cytogenetic
approaches to immunocytochemistry and modern molecular biology techniques.
Haematological studies at SPbMU were tightly connected to the history of the Faculty
Therapy Chair which celebrates its centennary this year.
From 1922 to 1948, the Chair and Clinic of Faculty Therapy was headed by Professor G.F. Lang
whose Doctor’s Thesis (as early as 1901) was titled: “Diagnostic significance of increased
red blood cell resistance in the stomach ulcer”. Various features of iron metabolism as well
as mechanisms of leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, etiology of polycytaemia, haemolysis, and the
role of the spleen in the blood system had been studied at the clinic guided by
Prof. G.F. Lang.
From 1948 through 1974, the Faculty Therapy Chair was succeeded by Professor T.S. Istamanova,
a pupil of Professor G.F. Lang. T. Istamanova was an excellent internist, and she encouraged
research in a broad range of disease states accompanied by disturbances of haematopoiesis.
Staff of the Division of Haematology of the Faculty Therapy Chair
Director of the Center of Haematology Prof. B.V. Afanasiev
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