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• ITMO University Rises Higher in THE Physical Sciences Subject Ranking

  …n here. It should be noted that in order to be featured on the ranking, a university must have published at least 500 works in the corresponding subject area in the period between 2013 and 2017. In addition, no less than 5% of its staff must work in that subject area. Times Higher Education publishes 11 subject rankings in various fields: Social sciences, B…

  07.11.2018

• Cancer Survival Guide: Oncologist Ilya Fomintsev Gives Lecture at ITMO University

  …genes which can cause cancer if they break. Proto-oncogenes are genes that are responsible for cell division, suppressor genes are genes that are responsible for interactions between cells, and repair genes are responsible for "repairing" DNA. During their lives, people become subject to different factors, many of which cause genetic damage. Oftentimes, things like t…

  07.11.2018

• OPORA RUSSIA: Championing Technological Entrepreneurship

  …s to develop independent business projects and commercialize their research results. The participants of the forum believe that balance and effective system of interaction between scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are essential to bring about successful commercialization of scientific developments through the coordination of activities and communication b

  07.11.2018

• ITMO Graduate Anastasia Svarovskaya on Promoting Space Science

  …ber of the youth section of the Russian Cosmonaut Federation. Whenever possible, I am helping them with conducting different projects and events. I am also managing social networks for the Open Space VK community. Together with Vitaly Egorov (Vitaly Egorov aka Zelenyikot, space exploration enthusiast, blogger, journalist -- Ed.) we have lots of ideas and plans for…

  06.11.2018

• A Different View: 10 St. Petersburg Instagram Accounts for a New Perspective

  …his is a trip down the memory lane with artifacts from the Soviet past taking center stage. Why it’s neat? Because it’s about stories, cultural baggage and direct connections between say, an old German-made meat grinder and Sunday dinners and the fact that you can’t turn back time but you can always try.…

  05.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: Studio Ghibli, Nuff Said

  …urbane Tokyo dweller who decides to pay a visit to her relatives in the countryside during the safflower harvest. What could go wrong? Oh, nothing, only the striking contrast between her life in Tokyo and her distant family’s rural idyllic plunges her into the wild stream of throwbacks to her past and present, as well as existential reflections on repressive societal…

  02.11.2018

• ITMO’s Teaching Methodology Wins Best Innovation Product Award

  …the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs RUSNANO, coordinated a project summer school in nanotechnologies there. Secondly, we cooperate with Quantorium, a federal network of technoparks for kids. These are extremely important projects which are also very interesting for us to participate in (more on this cooperation here). Next week, our university…

  02.11.2018

• State Hermitage Photographer Yuri Molodkovets on Running an Instagram for World-Famous Museum

  …ould have had a great effect on many viewers by helping them reinterpret what's commonly displayed at the Hermitage. And it all ended up in a scandal that stemmed from social networks, namely Instagram. Lots of posts against the Hermitage and Fabre emerged, about us having supposedly tortured animals and so on. What's more, many of them were obviously fake, written i…

  02.11.2018

• Ghent University Professor: Every Patient Should Have Their Own Heart Model

  …s disease. To solve this problem, we have to approach this question from a broader perspective and study not a single cell but the whole heart. So after we find a correlation between certain mutations and arrhythmia, we can think of the ways these mutations can be cured. This is one of the examples of how fundamental science can be used to solve real-life tasks. T…

  01.11.2018

• What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer: Oncologist Explains

  …eakthrough findings used in biological research and medical practice. Can you tell us how practicing oncologists collaborate with scientists today? Is there a significant gap between fundamental research and practice in the field of medicine? Evidence-based medicine is founded on the outcomes of medical research. Breast cancer is one of the most major concerns of …

  31.10.2018