Main stages of development and modern-state-of-art of photodynamic therapy in Russia
Journal: Photobiology and Photomedicine
Year: 2018

The article discusses main stages of 25-year development of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in Russia. It underlines that the initiator of PDT development in Russia was Academician Prof. Oleg Skobelkin, director of the Clinical and Research Center for Laser Medicine, Healthcare Ministry of Russian Federation. He united efforts of some institutions of chemical and physical profile so as to develop home-made photosensitizers (PS) and to develop laser devices for PDT application. In 1990 a group of scie