NEUROIMMUNOLOGY, NEUROCHEMISTRY CONFERENCE OPENS IN ARMENIA

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 24 2007

YEREVAN, September 24. /ARKA/. An international conference on
neurochemistry and neuroimmunology dedicated to the 100th anniversary
of the famous Armenian scientist Hrachya Buniatyan opened today
in Yerevan.

According to Director of Hrachya Buniatyan Institute of Biochemistry
Prof. Gevorg Gevorgian, about 100 scientists from different countries,
including Germany, Norway, Russia and the USA, are participating in
the conference.

"The main purpose of the event is to honor the memory of the great
scientist Hrachya Buniatyan whose colleagues from different parts of
the world have gathered here," Gevorgian said.

Participants to the conference will discuss the latest discoveries
and issues of neurochemistry and neuroimmunology.

"These sciences play an important role all over the world, as the
ability to control mental processes will help to solve a number of
problems and treat various diseases," Gevorgian said.

He pointed out that the Armenian science has had a great investment
in the sphere.

Gevorgian believes the conference will help to establish new relations
and make cooperation between Armenian and foreign scientists more
effective.

Hrachya Buniatyan is the founder of the schools of biochemistry and
neurochemistry in Armenia and the first director of the Institute
of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet
Republic of Armenia.

He is also the founder of the Neurochemistry Journal which is still
being translated and delivered around the world. Buniatyan was member
of the international union of neurochemists and honorary professor
in various universities of the world, particularly, in the Academy
of Naturalists Leopoldina (Germany).