Organizing Committee Member
Mikhail Ostrovsky
Academician
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
Biography
Mikhail Ostrovsky is a Physiologist known for his work in Vision and Biology. He is a full member (Academician) of Russian Academy of Sciences, a Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University and President of the Pavlov Physiological Society of Russia. He has published books on the Molecular Mechanisms of Visual Reception (2002), Spectral Correction of Vision (2005), Actual Tendency of Brain Investigation (2010), Molecular Physiology and Pathology of the Eye Lens (2013) and 200 scientific papers. Over the past two decades, he has been actively studying the lipofuscin granules. Together with co-authors, he found that lipofuscin granules are generators of free radicals under the action of visible light (1993). Recently, together with co-authors he described “changes in spectral properties and composition of lipofuscin fluorophores from human retinal pigment epithelium with pathology†(2015).
Research Area
Sensory Systems,Ophthalmology,physiologist,Visual Pathology