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• Open to Everyone: Ex-Students to Come Back to the University

  Alumni Week started at ITMO on April 27. Many of those who graduated many years ago were happy to come back to ITMO and have a trip down memory lane.  

  28.04.2017

• Silicon Nanoparticles for Nanosurgery: Master’s Student Publishes an Article in Nano Letters

  Using nanoparticles for medical purposes is a promising method which remains sought-after for over 10 years. One of the most important breakthroughs in this field is optical heating of nanoparticles fixed on tumor cells. Using this method one can damage diseased cells with localized heating. To control the temperature without damaging living tissues researchers use golden particles. However, the current control methods are complicated and take lots of time. ITMO Master’s student Georgy Zograf tries to solve this problem using silicon nanoparticles. He became the first author of article devoted to the results of this study, which was published in Nano Letters.

  28.04.2017

• Step Towards the Future: The School Patent’ Finals Took Place at ITMO

  Initiated by ITMO’s  Institute of the International Business and Law the Contest School Patent took place on April 26. Young developers presented their projects in different fields and talked about inventions. 

  27.04.2017

• Beauty Pageants Are not for Smart People: Winner of Miss ITMO 2017 Was Announced

  The Miss ITMO contest came to an end last week. This year, the winner’s crown was given to Anna Grigorieva, a student of the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics.  

  27.04.2017

• Virtual World in a Couple of Days

  “Creation of game worlds: from math models to art” – that was the topic of the 10th Interactive School “Technologies of High-Performance Computing and Computer Modeling.” During four days the participants attended lectures on video game development and gamification as well as created their own game worlds. 

  25.04.2017

• Solar Panel of the New Generation by ITMO PhD Student

  On one hand, solar panels are a green solution, but on the other, they are very expensive and not very effective. However, cutting expenses on them will increase the popularity of  this alternative energy source. ITMO’s PhD student Mikhail Omelyanovich is working on reducing the cost for solar panels using perovskites and laser ablation. ITMO.NEWS talked to Mikhail about his development.  

  25.04.2017

• Days of Intellectual Property: How to Patent One’s Invention in the 21st Century

  In 2017, the Days of Intellectual Property gathered together experts in the field of intellectual property, researchers, entrepreneurs and talented developers who are discussing how to protect one’s software code and how to teach young inventors how to deal with Intellectual Property basics. This year the gathering is taking place in St. Petersburg from April 18-26, supported by ITMO University. 

  24.04.2017

• All-Russian Lab Session: Solving Life’s Difficult Questions

  When children ask simple questions about how the world works, it requires you to dig deep into your understanding of science and the universe, something you may not be used to doing every day if you aren’t a scientist. Last Sunday’s All-Russian Lab Session at ITMO University, gave participants a chance to do just this.

  24.04.2017

• Fight Diseases at the Nanolevel: How ITMO’s New Lab Works on Targeted Drug Delivery

  ITMO’s International Research Center for Magnetically Controlled Nanosystems for Theranostics  of Oncological and Heart Diseases opened recently. Its researchers plan to develop hybrid nanosystems for targeted drug delivery. The center will be headed by Anna Orlova, an associate professor at the Department of Natural Physics and Natural Science and Professor Yury Volkov, chair of Trinity Translational Medicine Institute. The specialists from the Institute of Experimental Medicine at the Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre will also join the research team.

  19.04.2017

• Two-in-One: Why Does One Need to Combine Advantages of Electronic and Probe Microscopes?

  NT-Spb, one of ITMO Technopark’s residents, developed equipment, which fuses together the best properties of electronic and probe microscopes – it allows increasing its efficiency and capacity.  As of now, the equipment has no counterparts in Russia.  

  19.04.2017