Institute of Experimental Cardiology is a leading biomedical research institution of Russian Federation engaged in the investigation of mechanisms underlying cardio-vascular diseases and in the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Joint effort of highly qualified biochemists, molecular biologists and geneticists, physiologists, pathologists, cytologists, immunologists, gene engineers, enzymologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians working at the Institute has gained new insights into cellular, molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of cardio-vascular pathologies and led to creation of new diagnostic instruments, therapeutic approaches and pharmacological means of their control and correction.

Director
Professor Vladimir N. Smirnov,
DSci Corr. Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
Academic of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences