The Ministry of Health has found the reason for the backwardness of Russian biomedicine

The development of medical biotechnologies in Russia is stalled
without public-private partnership – Ministry of Health

Valeria Pimenova, "Parliamentary Newspaper"

At a time when in countries such as China, the USA, Germany, research in the field of biomedical technologies is carried out at the expense of various funds, in Russia this burden is borne by the state. This entails the lag of the Russian Federation from the world leaders of the industry, according to Andrey Vasiliev, Director of the Department of Innovative Development and Scientific Design of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. He stated this at a visiting meeting of the Expert Council on Healthcare of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy at the Skolkovo Technopark.

"In this area, the topic of public-private partnership is far from being exhausted," he stressed. The expert also spoke about the main issues and challenges facing healthcare today. This is an increase in migration and, as a consequence, the spread of infections, the deterioration of the habitat and the change in human lifestyle, an increase in the proportion of people with hereditary diseases, a change in the structure of the population, the emergence of antibiotic-resistant viral strains. According to Andrey Vasiliev, all these issues can be solved with the help of biomedical technologies. And genome editing technologies can save humanity from incurable diseases in the future.

The expert also complained that despite the stable development of medical science in Russia, these rates are not enough to compete with world leaders. Member of the Committee of the Chamber of Regions on Social Policy Vladimir Krugly thanked the representative of the Ministry of Health for his speech and noted that the Federation Council is always open to dialogue and proposals.

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