The Department has the following main activities:

• study of the mechanisms of functioning of body systems in normal and pathological conditions;
• development of new methods for the diagnosis of non-communicable diseases, diagnostic devices;
• experimental substantiation of new principles and methods of treatment of nervous, mental, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and other diseases;
• regularities of the pathological process;
• development of new medical, diagnostic, prophylactic and rehabilitation technologies, medical equipment and medical products, medicinal and immunobiological preparations, cellular and molecular biological technologies;
• creation of new technologies for the prevention of diseases based on the use of dietary supplements, other drugs;
• environmental monitoring and forecasting;
• rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated land;
• mechanisms of adaptation of the human body to the action of environmental factors;
• protective measures to overcome the remote radioecological and biomedical consequences of the Chernobyl disaster;
• functioning of biosystems, biotechnology, chemotherapy and immunoprophylaxis and therapy of infectious and noncommunicable diseases, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry;
• study of the effects of chemical, physical and biological environmental factors;
• toxicological and hygienic assessment of new chemicals, compositions and formulations introduced into the national economy and health care.