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• Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology

  … labs from different Russian cities: Moscow (the Lomonosov Moscow State University), Tomsk (Tomsk State University), St. Petersburg (ITMO University), and Nizhny Novgorod (the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences). MSU professor Alexander Shkurinov stepped in as the head of this project aimed at examining biological tissues, flu…

  25.12.2018

• New Year Charity Events You Can Participate In

  … 2. Blood donation The blood donation center of the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg looks for donors for patients of the Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Institute of Children Hematology and Transplantation. This is the only clinic in Russia that performs bone marrow transplantation. The center is located at 19-53 Lev Tolstoy Street, not …

  24.12.2018

• New Year's Gifts Russian Style

  … New Year’s,” my grandma would say, heading to the store. The people who have it the worst are doctors, teachers, and distant friends, who are destined to end up with mountains of chocolates or perfume (an option I never understood; because how would you possibly know their favorite smell?). If you’re thinking about what to get for your Russian friends, conside…

  24.12.2018

• How to Survive the Holidays If You’re a Grinch

  …o in parks and on the streets. Of course, some of your friends (should the fate be so cruel to you as to give you outgoing nincompoops as friends) will still want to socialize inside, but you’re experienced, you find the way to get out of those traps if you feel you did too much talking for one week. This bliss lasts until one fateful day in December, when you…

  21.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …Oxford Brookes University began in 1865 as the Oxford School of Art. Back then it took up a single room on the first floor of the Taylor Institution at Oxford. Today, it is one of the top-25 universities in the UK and one of the world’s top-50 universities according to QS World University Rankings 2018. “Oxford Brookes is one of the biggest of the UK’s so-called…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Students' Facial Recognition System Wins 'Best Creative Solution' at Fintech Cup

  …All you have to do is to direct a camera to a cardholder’s face, then the application recognizes it and transmits the data to the server. The neural network checks the face against the database and approves or rejects the transaction. The main advantage of the new method is that it protects users’ personal data such as their card and phone number. The idea is easi…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …ountries can boast significant experience in the implementation of educational programs focused on green economy and sustainable development. In Finland, the Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) has established the Boreal Green Bioeconomy program. Finland itself has remained a major player in the field of Bioeconomy thanks to its abundance of natural and human resource…

  20.12.2018

• Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network: Connecting Small Businesses and Clients

  …, which offer affordable but personalized services. The project’s team members view themselves as researchers of natural human behavior in the urban environment. “We find inspiration in the ideas of the Chicago Sociological School, which emerged in the 1920s and was the first major body of works specializing in urban sociology,” shares Aleksandra Nenko, the head…

  20.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 22-23

  …ptures will be launched in the Peter and Paul Fortress. More than 30 renowned artists from Russia, Belgium, France, Germany and other countries will demonstrate their works inspired by this year’s theme “Around the World”. Admire Australia’s most extraordinary marine life, make your way through a dangerous jungle somewhere in South America, see ancient Egyptian py…

  19.12.2018

• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …es and receptor inhibitors, hormone antagonists (which affect target cells by causing hormonal disruptions), and proteasome inhibitors (which block complexes that destroy proteins). Drug development process It’s impossible to make a universal drug for all targets. A target molecule has to have a stereochemically unique cavity (also known as a ‘pocket’) able to …

  19.12.2018