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Rare and complicated backbone operations at Stradins Hospital

In collaboration with European colleagues Petr Vanek from Prague Military hospital (the Czech Republic) arrived at Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital Neurosurgery clinic to perform backbones stabilization operations. He operated two young Latvian patients with rarely observed backbones deformations.

The National Resarch programme

Development of new prevention, treatment, diagnostics means and practices and biomedicine technologies for improvement of public health

Programme leader

Professor Valdis Pīrāgs, dr. med., Head of Department in University of Latvia, Head of Internal Medicine Clinic in Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

Programme implementation period

2010. - 2013.

Project clusters within programme

I. Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases

Leaders: Andrejs Ērglis (LU) and Ivars Kalviņš (OSI).

Project No. 1 "Studies on the pathophysiology and clinical manifestation of atherosclerosis, stem cells and biomaterials"

Project No. 2 "Pharmacogenetics of type 2 diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases and screening of drug target receptors"

Project No. 3 „Investigations of diabetic complications and biological activity of cardiovascular drugs"

II. Oncology diseases

Leaders: Jānis Gardovskis (RSU) and Aija Linē (BMC).

Project No. 4 "Hereditary and sporadic cancer clinical, molecular and morphological correlation research, early diagnosis, treatment effectiveness and patients' quality of life"

Project No. 5 "Development of anticancer drugs targeting cancer stem-like cells"

Project No. 6 "The search of new biologically active compounds for anticancer therapy"

Project No. 7 "Development of efficient tools for delivery of DNA, RNA, proteins, peptides and small biologically active molecules in vivo and in vitro"

III. Childhood and infectious diseases

Leaders: Aigars Pētersons (RSU) and Modra Murovska (RSU).

Project No. 8 "Clinical, molecular-biological, biomechanical and morphofunctional research of diagnostics and treatment of congenital and acquired diseases of childhood"

Project No. 9 "Interaction between infectious agent and genetic background of the host organism"