Throughout its online presence, the journal has always had the same ISSN and Russian title («БИОпрепараты. Профилактика, диагностика, лечение»).
The journal has had several English titles, all of which are registered in the ISSN record:
BIOpreparats. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment (2010–2012);
BIOpreparation. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment (2013–2015);
BIOpreparations. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment (2016–2021);
Biological Products. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment (2022–present).
The history of the journal Biological Products. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment is inseparable from the name of Lev A. Tarasevich, an outstanding immunologist, microbiologist, epidemiologist, pathologist, public health official, and the first director of the State Scientific Research Institute for Standardisation and Control of Biological Medicinal Products.
Lev A. Tarasevich (1868–1927)
Being a polymath, Dr Tarasevich made significant contributions to immunology, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine development. Dr Tarasevich pursued his academic career at the time of major discoveries, new theories, and heated debates in the field of immunology and bacteriology. Dr Tarasevich was a passionate advocate of vaccination aimed at protecting the population from epidemics of infectious diseases. Dr Tarasevich’s papers and speeches, as well as his rational and balanced approach to mass immunisation played a pivotal role in adopting it as a method for infection prevention in Russia. He put great efforts into organising vaccination campaigns against tuberculosis in the newborn and cholera and typhoid fever in the military and refugees. Dr Tarasevich eagerly supported the development of state-of-the-art applications of vaccinology, including oral vaccination.
Dr Tarasevich’s work supported the evolution of epidemiology into a separate field of medicine, involving implementation of epidemic control measures. Dr Tarasevich helped in the development of oral vaccines against dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera.
In 1920, Dr Tarasevich established and headed the Louis Pasteur State Institute for People’s Health that brought together several specialised research institutions including the Control Institute of Sera and Vaccines. The latter was renamed in his honour after his death in 1927. This name was changed again in 1971 to the Tarasevich State Scientific Research Institute for Standardisation and Control of Biological Medicinal Products.
It was the Tarasevich State Scientific Research Institute for Standardisation and Control of Biological Medicinal Products that started regular publication of the peer-reviewed scholarly and applied research journal Biological Products. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment in 2001.
Since the very first issue the journal has been publishing materials on pre-marketing control of biological products and their use for specific prophylaxis and treatment of diseases of diverse aetiology.
In 2012, the journal was transferred to the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Scientific Centre for Expert Evaluation of Medicinal Products” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, but this did not affect its scientific specialisation.
To commemorate Dr Tarasevich and his work, the Editorial Board and staff of the journal Biological Products. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment have prepared and published editorial articles addressing the biography of Dr Tarasevich and the history of Tarasevich State Scientific Research Institute for Standardisation and Control of Biological Medicinal Products and the journal itself:
- Works of Lev Aleksandrovich Tarasevich in the Field of Immunology and Vaccinology. On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of His Birth. BIOpreparations. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment . 2018;18(2):72-74. (In Russ.).
- On the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Russian State Institute for Control of Vaccines and Sera. BIOpreparations. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment . 2019;19(1):6-9. (In Russ.).
- To the 20th Anniversary of the Journal BIOpreparations. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment. BIOpreparations. Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment . 2021;21(1):6-9. (In Russ.).
