During the existence of the Department 3 doctoral theses were defended (Maleev V.Ya., 1976; Semenov M.A., 1991; Shestopalova A.V., 2007), 4 workers got PhD in Medicine and Biology (Anokhina G.A., 1969; Krasnitskaya A.A., 1970; Rosenberg V.D., 1972; Dreval N.V., 2009), 20 scientists got PhD degrees in Physics and Mathematics (Gasan A.I., 1974; Semenov M.A., 1975; Kashpur V.A., 1977; Shchegoleva T.Yu., 1981; Bolbukh T.V., 1986; Shestopalova A.V., 1987; Starikov E., 1988; Zhilyakova T.A., 1991; Kuleshov L.L., 1992; Kruglova E.B., 1996; Tolstorukov M.E., 1998; Virnik K.M., 1999; Bereznyak E.G., 2000; Glibitskiy G.M., 2000; Khorunzhaya O.V., 2004; Dukhopelnikov E.V., 2005; Gladkovskaya N.A., 2006; Boriskina E.P., 2007; Ermak E.L., 2008; Sukhanov O.S., 2008; Khrebtova A.S., 2015).
At the present time three postgraduate students are working at the Department (Gerus A.A., Fomin A.V., Glibitskiy D.M.). In 2016 the defense of M.Yu. Zhitnikova’s thesis and in 2017 the one of D.A. Pesina are planned.
- Zhitnikova M.Yu. Conformations of the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA in the protein-DNA complexes: the implementation of the mechanism of indirect recognition. Thesis for the PhD degree of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, specialty 03.00.02 – Biophysics. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv national university, Kharkiv, 2017.
- Blyzniuk Iu.M. Mechanisms of the association of biologically active compounds and their complexation with DNA. Thesis for the PhD degree of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, specialty 03.00.02 – Biophysics. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv national university, Kharkiv, 2018.
- Glibitskiy D.M. Textures of films of biopolymer-salt systems: quantitative analysis of physical and chemical influences. Thesis for the PhD degree of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, specialty 03.00.02 – Biophysics. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv national university, Kharkiv, 2019.