TNMU Agreed on Cooperation with the Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

On October 23, 2020 a meeting of Professor Mykhailo Korda, the Rector of TNMU, and Mykola Posokhov, the Head of the Department of Functional Neurosurgery of the Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Kharkiv) took part at I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University. The joint projects on the regenerative medicine in neurosurgery were agreed during the meeting.

For a long time, Ternopil National Medical University a research laboratory for cultivation and study of stem cells has been operating. Today, cell therapy is an innovative, very promising method of treating diseases and injuries, which allows restoring damaged body tissues and organs through transplantation of new healthy cells – stem cells. They are widely used in treatment of severe diseases in children and adults, especially in cases of malignant blood diseases and a number of other hematopoietic disorders, i.e. leukemia, thalassemia, sickle cell disease, bone marrow failure, hereditary and acquired immunological defects, genetic diseases, and also to restore immunity after illness. The use of stem cells in neurology and neurosurgery is also promising.