General Director of the Center for Infectious Pathology Tengiz Tsertsvadze died

Tengiz Tsertsvadze, General Director of the Center for Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Clinical Immunology, died.

Immunologist, professor, doctor of medical sciences, founder of the HIV/AIDS service in Georgia, died at the age of 76 as a result of illness.

Tengiz Tsertsvadze was a member of the American Society of Infectious Diseases, as well as a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the European Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Vice President of the Scientific Association of Infectious Diseases, Hepatologists, Parasitologists, Epidemiologists and Microbiologists of Georgia, Member of the Country Coordinating Council for the Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Member of the International AIDS Society. He was a Knight of the Presidential Order of Excellence, as well as a Knight of the Order of Merit.