Andres Kulla made an important contribution to medical science, being the first to introduce neuropathological research methods in the morphological examiantion of nervous diseases in Estonia, the application of immunohistochemical method to the routine diagnostical pathology, and the application of double immunity histochemical method in morphological research. Andres Kullas research work could continue with the utilisation of new modern experimental models at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy of the Tartu University, and the continuation of his research work at the Biomedical Centre of the Tartu University in co-operation with foreign partners from the Bergen University and Mainz University.
The aim of the Ernst Rudolf Jaakson Memorial Foundation is to support the Estonian candidates of doctors degree, researchers and professors studying or conducting research abroad for their doctors degree in order to grow competent successors to the researchers of Tartu University.
Press Service of the Office of the President
Kadriorg, August 22, 2001
