Academic Council Chairman - A.I. Archakov
Vice-presidents - Prof. V.V. Poroikov, M.K. Guseva

Academic Council includes 45 members (5 of them introduced)
Academic Council staff: academicians - 2, corresponding member - 1, professors - 18, doctors of science - 34, candidated of science - 7.

Academic Council is a deliberative body of Institute's self-government. The functions are as follows (according to Regulations):

• examination of scientific and organizational activities mainstreams;
• examination and approval of annual reports, Institute's researches plans, SBIR perspective plans;
• examination of questions on Institute's economic activity;
• examination of questions on scientific manpower, replacement of vacant positions;
• approval of candidate's and doctoral thesis's themes, their progress analysis;
• analyzing of Institute's structure and members of staff list, making changes;
• nomination of researches, discoveries, inventions for the nominal and governmental awards;
• nomination and support of candidates full members (academicians) and corresponding members of Russian Academy of Medical Science, RussianAcademy of Sciences and other academies;
• other questions examination concerning scientific, organizational and economical Institute's activities;
• Institute's Regulations examination including adds-in and making changes.