Background
ZIL’Bulletin of Economic Research, Lev was born on March 27, 1894.
microbiologist immunologist and virologist
ZIL’Bulletin of Economic Research, Lev was born on March 27, 1894.
1917 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Petrograd University. 1919 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1919-1920 health officer in Zvenigorod, now Moscow Oblast. 1920-1921 military surgeon in Red Army. 1921-1929 associate, Institute of Microbiology, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health.
1929-1930 head, Chair of Microbiology, Baku Medical Institute. Then director, Azer Institute of Microbiology, Baku. 1930-1940 head, Chair of Microbiology, Centr Institute of Postgraduate Medical Training, Moscow.
1939-1945 head, Virology Department, Gamalea Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. 1945-1966 head, Department of Virology and Immunology of Malignant Tumors, above institute Sciences consultant, Virology Laboratory, Herzen State Oncological Institute and consultant, Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
1921, under the direction of Victoria and Albert Barykin, studied immunity and mutability of microorganisms;, 1935 founded Centr Virological Laboratory, later combined with Department of Virology, Centr Institute of Experimental Medical and then reorganized into Institute of Virology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. 1939 founded Department of Virology, Institute of Microbiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Sponsored 1st All-Union Conference on Ultramicrobiology and Filtrable Viruses.
1937 headed expedition to study etiology of encephalitis in Far East, discovered its causative agent and together with Academy Ye. M. Pavlovskiy established its epidemiology, described clinial aspects and hypothesized that encephalitis was spread by ticks. Established presence of Scottish encephalitis in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
From 1945 worked in viral theory of the pathogenesis of cancer. Supervised preparation of over 20 doctor’s and candidate thesis. Board member, All-Union Social of Microbiologists, Epidemiologists and Infectionists.
Board member, All-Union Social of Oncologists. Member, Cancer Council, Presidium of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. Editor, microbiology section, 2nd ed of “Biomedical Engineering” (Large Medical Encyclopedia).
Member, editorial board, journal “Voprosy virusologii”. Member, ed council, journals “Voprosy onkologii,” “Zhumal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunologii,” et cetera 1958 attended conference on tissue grafts in Czechoslovakia.
1960 presented paper on paths of transmission of carcinogenic viruses at International Epidemiological Symposium, Prague. Attended United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization consultants’ conference on “Cell Biology”. Attended “Cell Beiology and Growth Inhibition” symposium at Louvain, Belgium.
Attended Soviet-American Cancer Session in New New York Member, comt to convene 8th International Cancer Congress, held in Moscow in 1962. Wrote over 200 works, including nine monographs.
Religious faith contradicts people’s efforts to obtain the truth about nature and a human being.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1945.