Biography
At the end of the 20th century it seemed that all the infections that were the scourge of mankind for thousands of years, defeated and medical biology should be forgotten about viruses and bacteria, throwing power to fight cancer, genetic and cardiovascular diseases. The coronavirus infection pandemic demonstrated that it was early to celebrate the victory, and did the director of the N. F. Gamaley Center Alexander Ginzburg, a media person, the desired source of Russian and foreign correspondents.Childhood and youth
Academician was born on November 10, 1951 in the hospital on the old Arbat. Alexander is the only son of Frontovik Leonid Ginzburg, subsequently headed by the laboratory of the Central Institute of Automobile and Automotive Transport (US).
The photo of the veteran who lasts the driver of the truck, and the story about the biography of Leonid Leonidovich, in January 2016 published the newspaper of the Municipal District of the Golovinsky "Our Golovino". The article reports that Grandfather Alexander Leonidovich - a lawyer, a labor law specialist Leonid Yakovlevich Ginzburg - in 1938 was arrested according to the den, and in 1954 he was completely rehabilitated.
Peru Father of the virologist belongs to the Book "Hydraulic Car Steering Amplifiers", published in 1972. Leonid Leonidovich contributed to the improvement of a knife for opening canned food.
A scientist mother, a specialist in the construction of bridges, perfectly sang and wanted the Son to engage in music. However, when Alexandra, like most of his peers, who lived in the first professorial cooperative house, located on the Zubovsky Square, began to teach the game on the piano, it turned out that the boy does not have a musical hearing.
Thanks to the intercession of his father, Sasha was freed from learning Hamm, and the future virologist held childhood in the courtyard games. The beloved book of Young Ginzburg was the novel of Alexander Duma "Three Musketeers".
Alexander biology became interested in filing Mother: a woman gave the son of a brochure from the "Knowledge" series, and the guy became fascinated by the miniature of Andrei Belozersky about the DNA structure. Academician graduated from school without a medal, and the Institute - without a Red Diploma, but when admitted to the biological and soil faculty of Moscow State University passed all 3 exams on the five and overcame the contest in 25 people in place.
During the distribution after the 1st year, Ginzburg fell to the Department of Virology, headed by the author who loved in adolescence brochure - Belozersky. The main mentor in Moscow State University, Alexander Leonidovich calls Beniamineovich's Hesin-Lurie's novel.
Personal life
Virologist is happy in a personal life. In an interview with the Russian Gazette, published on October 1, 2020, Alexander Leonidovich said that the wife of Nelly Akhatovna works in the research institute. Apparently, the spouse of Ginzburg - Naila Akhatovna Zigangirov, the doctoral thesis of which is devoted to the persistence of pathogenic mycoplasmas. Husband with his wife have several joint patents.The daughter of the memorial pair of Elizabeth went at the footsteps of the parents - works at the Nikolay Gamaley Center and participates in post-block tests of vaccines. The red-haired granddaughter of Alexander Leonidovich Valeria is studying in high school and does not yet know whether a biography will connect with biology and medicine.
From 2005, director of the center named after N. F. Gamaley since 2005, together with his wife lives in the Cottage village of Kryuchkovo on Novorizhskoye highway. Academician falls to bed around midnight, and wakes up at the beginning of the seventh in the morning.
Pandemic COVID-19 Spouses regularly went to the theater. The last formulation seen by Alexander Leonidovich and Nellle Akhatovna before the introduction of quarantine measures was the Lenkomov play of Gleb Panfilov "Fly to salvation" with Viktor Rakov and Inna Churikova in high roles.
Scientific activity
After graduation in 1974, MSU Alexander Leonidovich seven and a half years held in the walls of the Institute of Molecular Genetics, and then he entered the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR named after N. F. Gamaley, who was headed in 1997.
Now at the institute there are both scientific and production units, which allows you to minimize the gap between science and practice and speed up the path of medicinal innovations to the consumer. The favorite aphorism of Ginzburg is the phrase Louis Pasteur:
"There is no fundamental and applied science, there are only applications of science."From the beginning of the XXI century, Alexander Leonidovich heads the Department of Intectology in the Moscow Medical Academy named after Ivan Sechenov. In 2004, the microbiologist became an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and when RAMN joined the Russian Academy of Sciences, - Academician RAS. Ginzburg - co-author of books "Epidemiological aspects of the Ecology of Bacteria" and "Bacteria Survival Mechanisms". In 2003, Alexander Leonidovich was awarded the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for the development of "cycloferon".
Alexander Ginzburg now
In May 2020, the institute headed by Ginzburg reported on the creation of the first vaccine in the world against COVID-19. At the same time Alexander Leonidovich and all his employees vaccinated with their development. By the end of the summer, the drug passed 2 phases of tests on volunteers, and the Ministry of Health of Russia allowed even before passing the third phase to produce a vaccine under the trademark "Satellite V".
By the end of 2020, 4 million doses will be produced in Russia. "Satellite V" is going to produce also in India and Brazil.