Background
Rem Viktorovich Petrov was born on March 22, 1930 in Ust'-Medveditskaya stanitsa of the Middle Volga region, Russian Federation. He was the son of Victor Ivanovitch Petrov and Evdokia Emelianovna Kutniak.
Rem Viktorovich Petrov was born on March 22, 1930 in Ust'-Medveditskaya stanitsa of the Middle Volga region, Russian Federation. He was the son of Victor Ivanovitch Petrov and Evdokia Emelianovna Kutniak.
He graduated from the Department of general medicine of the Voronezh State Medical Institute (1953; now an honorary doctor of the Voronezh State Medical Academy).
Rem Viktorovich Petrov worked at the Institute of Biophysics of the USSR Ministry of Healthcare (1953-1983). At the same time, he was the head of the country's first department of immunology at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (since 1974). Director of the Institute of Immunology of the USSR Ministry of Healthcare (1983-1988). Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1988-2001). The Academic Adviser of the Science Academy, Chairman of the Russian Federation Drug Committee (since 2002).
Author of many works on the problems of infectious immunology and immunogenetics.
He was a member of many Russian and foreign scientific societies and organizations, holder of many special awards, publicist.