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Center for Medical Polymers and Biomaterials - Tbilisi, Georgia
Biomedical applications of new polymers as absorbable surgical devices and drug
sustained/controlled release systems.
G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi,
Georgia
Georgian Academy of
Sciences
Description
Provided by Evergreen State College, Washington State, USA
In its heyday in the 1970s and 80s, nearly 800 people worked in the Industrial Branch
of the Eliava Institute, using enormous vats, pill stampers and automatic bottling
machines to pump out tons of phage products for military and civilian uses all over the
Soviet Union. Another 200 worked to analyze hundreds of thousands of bacterial
samples that continuously poured in at the direction of the Soviet Ministry of Health,
testing the phage cocktails for efficacy and constantly isolating new phage and making
refinements. They also fought infectious disease in other ways - vaccines, immune
enhancers, probiotic bacterial cultures - but phage were their main focus. By then,
Institutes and factories in places like Gorki and Ufa were also producing these phage
products for Soviet use, but Tbilisi phage were especially prized as far away as Lithuania
even in 1990.
Evergreen
State College, Olympia, Washington, USA
[Scroll down to "Evergreen Turns Over a New Phage"]
Ludwik
Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of
Science - Wroclaw, Poland
Immune System Development and Function: Immune Centre Combines Research and
Education with Clinical Practice.
Collaborators in Bacteriophage and Medical Polymers Research
- University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (USA)
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
- University of Akron, Akron, OH (USA)
- University of Georgia, Atlanta, GE (USA)
- Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi (Japan)
- University of Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
- Institute of Organic Chemistry of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, The Ukraine
- A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organometallic Compounds of RAS, Moscow (Russian
Federation)
- Nuclear Physics Institute at Tomsk Polytechnic University of the Ministry of Education,
Tomsk (Russian Federation)
- Institute of Biomedical Problems RAS, Moscow (Russian Federation)
- Tbilisi National University, Tbilisi (Georgia)
- Intralytix, Inc., Baltimore, MD (USA)
- MediVas LLC, San Diego, CA (USA)
- STRATEC Medical, Oberdorf, Switzerland
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