The Leading Volodymyr Pidvysotskyi’s Scientific School of Pathophysiologists

Abstract

This article describes the achievements of the pathophysiological school established by Volodymyr Valerianovych Pidvysotskyi (1857–1913), founder of the first school of pathologists, immunologists, and microbiologists in Ukraine. The contribution of the scientific school of thought can be confirmed in insights into hepatic tissue regeneration, as well as biomedical research in the field of bacteriology and immunology. Among Pidvysotskyi’s students were the famous scientists O. F. M ankovskyi, I. G. S avchenko, S. M. S chastnyi, L. O . Tarasevich, D. K. Zabolotnyi, V. O . Taranukhin, F. I. L ominskyi, and others. The purpose of this article is to present the achievements of the first Ukrainian school of pathophysiologists.