Serhiy Komisarenko
| Serhiy Komisarenko Сергій Комісаренко |
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| Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1992–1997 |
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| President |
Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Kuchma |
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| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Vasylenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 July 1943 Ufa |
| Alma mater | Kyiv Medical Institute |
Serhiy Vasylʹovych Komisarenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Васильович Комісаренко; Russian: Серге́й Васильевич Комиссаренко, Sergey Vasilyovich Komissarenko), born July 9, 1943 in Ufa, Bashkortostan, USSR is a Ukrainian scientist, politician, and diplomat. He was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, and is chairman of the O. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Komisarenko received an M.D. degree in 1966 from the Kyiv Medical Institute and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Kyiv University in 1970. He worked at the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1969–92, becoming its director in 1992. He became an academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in 1991, and of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1993.
His main scientific interests are in immunochemical analysis of peptide and protein antigenic structure. He was the founder of molecular immunology studies in Ukraine; his team was the first in the former Soviet Union to implement immunoenzyme methods, monoclonal antibody technique, and flow cytofluorimetry in research. He was the head of the Ukrainian Scientific Immunology Program; under his guidance it was found that low-dose radiation from Chernobyl fall-out decreased the number and activity of natural killer cells in humans. This immune suppression he named “Chernobyl AIDS”.
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