Life Sciences in 2009
Calendar of the most important events that have influenced the state of the life sciences industry (life science).
16.12.2009Calendar of the most important events that have influenced the state of the life sciences industry (life science).
16.12.2009All three winners of the II All-Russian Youth Innovation Convention, which was held in St. Petersburg from December 9 to 11, are the authors of projects in the field of biotechnology.
14.12.2009In January, the Government of the Russian Federation will submit for consideration the Strategy for the development of the Russian biotechnology industry for 2010-2020. The Government ignored the previously developed National Program for 2006-2015...
10.12.2009The round table "Biopharma: creating conditions for effective growth" was held within the framework of the III Scientific and Practical Conference "Prospects for the development of innovations in biology".
04.12.2009As information accumulates about the possibility of silencing genes using RNA interference, more and more biopharmaceutical developments based on this mechanism appear.
23.11.2009Biotechnology, in comparison with two other areas of the innovation economy – information and nanotechnology – seems to be much more difficult to "raise" in Russia due to some national characteristics.
19.11.2009The use of new nanoparticles filled with antitumor drugs and coated with guiding proteins will reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and increase its effectiveness.
10.11.2009Scenarios prepared by specialists of the Interdepartmental Analytical Center for the development of the medical technology sector in the context of upcoming global changes are proposed for discussion.
05.11.2009In general, as experts note, such a program (a Strategy for the development of the pharmaceutical industry for the period up to 2020) is necessary, even with some (so in the original – VM) utopianness of its main provisions.
29.10.2009The conversation that the Russian biotech needs resuscitation has been going on for about ten years. Biotechnologies are included in the list of priority areas for the development of science and technology. And the case is not moving from a dead point.
19.10.2009Peptides are universal regulators of many processes occurring in our body, including stimulation or suppression of immunity. Vladislav Deigin applied these properties of peptides to the development of drugs.
02.10.2009Vadim Govorun, a scientist and creator of an effective biotech business, talks about the prospects of Russian science, the role of the individual in its salvation and shares the main secret of success – it is necessary to build a new world around yourself.
25.09.2009The main strategy of Binnopharm CJSC is to produce drugs that replace imported medicines that will not be inferior to foreign analogues in quality and at the same time differ favorably in price.
14.09.2009On pharmacy shelves you can find a lot of rapid tests for pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, blood glucose, cholesterol levels, myocardial infarction… How do they work and can they be trusted?
14.09.2009Asta Naturae, a new domestic journal about research in the field of living systems and biotechnologies, plans to become a leader among scientific journals for a professional audience.
09.09.2009Transcript of the report of the Minister of Industry and Trade at the meeting of the Commission on Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy under the President of the Russian Federation. Main topics: pharmaceutical industry, medicine, biotechnology.
01.09.2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the commission on modernization and technological development of the Russian economy. The development of the pharmaceutical industry, medical equipment, medical and information technologies has been ordered to strengthen and deepen.
01.09.2009The authors of the Pharma 2020 strategy state that its main goal is to create conditions for the "transition to an innovative development model" of the Russian pharmaceutical industry, but at the same time they schematically designate both mechanisms and tools that ensure such a transition.
01.09.2009Vector-BiAlgam offers Russia's first combined vaccine against hepatitis A and B, plans to create a bottling site for injectable drugs and hopes to organize the production of immunoglobulins from donated blood.
15.07.2009Now DNA Technology has entered into cooperation with many Russian medical centers that work in the field of diagnostics, with blood transfusion stations, with cancer centers.
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