Several institutes of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have come up with significant contributions to the elaboration and production of domestic medicaments. At a recent joint session of the presidiums of two academies-SB RAS and SB RAMS-opportunities in this field were discussed, ready projects have been demonstrated and plans for the near future publicized. Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry is among the leading scientific centers in this sphere. Igor Grigoryev, deputy director of the Institute has told us about its achievements. Medicines as such have never been on our list before. Though it must be pointed out that if in the course of research related to organic chemistry anything interesting showed itself which had any bearing on medicine, it was supported by all means. As a result food additives, adaptogenes and immunostimulants created at our institute have become quite well-known. Today, on the contrary, the motto of our work collective headed by Academician Heinrich Tolstikov is: We are preparing and shall prepare medicaments from natural as well as from synthetic raw materials. Some of them were first studied (they are included in different programs) in Ufa at the Chemical Institute. In particular, this is true of Allapinin-an antiarrhythmic heart preparation. At present we are trying to organize its manufacture on the basis of a local plant-northern aconite; in 1999 enormous work was carried out for extraction of the plant and an experimental lot of the preparation was obtained. One of the latest achievements is a food additive-antioxifite-created by the efforts of our institute and a number of scientific research medical institutions. It possesses antioxidant activity and immunocorrective properties. It is recommended together with antitumor chemotherapy. Among preparations worked out in Ufa we must also mention an antiphlogistic antirheumatoid preparation Niglizin made from licorice roots. Besides, it possesses anti-ulc ... Читать далее