Assistant Professor
Kazan Federal University, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Rafael R. Khismatullin, MD, PhD in Cell Biology, Assistant Professor (Department of Morphology and General Pathology, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation), Researcher (Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation), Physician Pathologist (University Hospital of the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation).
Date of birth: August 18, 1993
Telephone: +7 (905) 038-66-20 (mobile)
EDUCATION:
2019-2023
PhD Program, Department of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Pharmacology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation (supervisor: Prof. Rustem I. Litvinov)
August-October 2019
Visiting Scholar, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (supervisor: Prof. John W. Weisel)
2016-2018
Residency in Pathology (Diploma with Academic Distinction), Department of General Pathology, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russian Federation
2010-2016
Medical Student, General Medicine, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russian Federation
DEGREES:
2023
Ph.D. in Cell Biology; thesis defended in Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation. Dissertation entitled “Structural bases of contraction (retraction) of blood clots and thrombi”
2016
M.D. (Diploma with Academic Distinction), Internal Medicine, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russian Federation
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Studying morphology of blood clots and thrombi; formation of uncontracted and contracted blood clots in vitro; histological examination, composition, and ultrastructure of thrombi of various locations; structural remodeling of blood clots and thrombi; morphological bases of inflammatory thrombosis; shape changes of red blood cells during clot contraction.
METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS
Tissue sampling and processing for histopathology evaluation using light microscopy, including fluorescent confocal microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, morphometric analysis and immunohistochemistry.
AWARDS
2020
Grant 20-015-00257 from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
2019
Travel Grant “Algarysh” from the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan
2019
Grant 19-015-00075 from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
PB0788 - Blood clot contraction depends both on clot shape and volume
Monday, June 24, 2024
13:45 – 14:45 ICT
PB0858 - Effects of neutrophil extracellular traps on blood clot contraction
Monday, June 24, 2024
13:45 – 14:45 ICT