What is Vasyl Komisarenko?
'''Vasyl Pavlovych Komisarenko''' (January 1, 1907, Chernyakhiv - April 7, 1993, [[Kyiv]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] endocrinologist and pathophysiologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, organizer and director of the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Head of the Department of Pathophysiology 1955-1960.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-01-05|title=Він залишається нашим сучасником. 14 січня 2007 року виповнюється 100 років від дня народження усесвітньо відомого ученого-патофізіолога, патріарха української ендокринології, академіка НАН і АМН України Василя Павловича Комісаренка. Микола ТРОНЬКО {{!}} Соціум {{!}} Людина|url=http://www.dt.ua/3000/3050/55554/|access-date=2021-01-22|website=web.archive.org|archive-date=2010-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105150003/http://www.dt.ua/3000/3050/55554/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Комісаренко Василь Павлович|url=http://www.nas.gov.ua:80/UA/PersonalSite/Pages/default.aspx?PersonID=0000006129|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.nas.gov.ua|language=uk-UA}}</ref> == Biography == He was born on January 14, 1907 in the village of Chernyakhiv (now Kaharlyk district of Kyiv region). He graduated from the Kyiv Medical School. In 1928 he entered the Kharkiv Medical Institute. After graduating from the institute in 1932, he was enrolled in the graduate school of the Ukrainian Organ Therapeutic Institute in Kharkiv. In 1935, Komisarenko defended his dissertation and worked as a senior researcher at the Ukrainian Organ Therapeutic Institute, and two years later he was appointed director of the institute. After moving to Kyiv at the invitation of Academician Oleksandr Bogomolets, from 1940, for 25 years, Vasyl Pavlovych headed the endocrinology laboratory of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology, which was later reorganized into the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology Bogomolets under the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1941, Komisarenko defe