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• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …o conclude by saying that the oft-experienced prolongations in the clinical trial stage can lead to a significant increase of the cost of the development process, making it a total of 500 million to a billion dollars in expenses. And this is the main reason why anticancer drugs come with such a big price-tag.…

  19.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

• Winter in St. Petersburg: Perks, Gripes, and Getaways

  …tive decorations. That's why I choose the chilliest evening, pour delicious tea into a thermos cup, and go for a walk through my beloved city in proud almost-solitude that is totally impossible in summer. Getaway: The Wild Vadim Galimov To me, there's no greater winter experience than the charming ambient sounds of a forest on a clear day. The crunching of s…

  11.12.2018

• Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It

  …nd expectations of users. We at the .NET-development department churn out lots of products on a regular basis. The department employs 100 people working with 200,000 files, a total of over 20 million lines of code, and a task of making our solutions operable on a variety of platforms. Lately we’ve been doing about 1,000 commit operations every day. This is an enormou…

  04.12.2018

• 2018 Student of the Year Winners on Students’ Unions, Science, and Buddy Program

  …nts cope with the pressure of being away from home. Last year, 26 international and 25 Russian students took part in the program. This year, the number of students doubled: a total of 91 international students came to study at ITMO, 41 for the autumn semester and 50 for summer schools. Our task is to help them adapt to new conditions and establish international colla…

  27.11.2018

• I am a Professional: Qualification Round Starts with Over Half a Million Participants in the Game

• VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier

  …able Alexander Column. Alexey Margolin: I first heard about VK Hackathon four years ago, when it was held at ITMO University and was a pretty low-scale event. This year, a total of 400 developers took part in the hackathon. Over the past four years, the number of teams has increased several-fold from 34 to 120, while the prize fund has risen from 300,000 rubles to…

  23.11.2018

• ITMO Master’s Students Win National Lighting Design Competition

  …pedestrian underpass located near the Novocherkasskaya metro station at the Zanevskaya Square. The main issue that they aimed to solve was disorientation: the underpass has a total of 12 exits with seemingly similar signs. The proposed design doesn’t call for any radical change to the lighting; instead, its main idea is the creation of an intuitive visual code based …

  22.11.2018

• Gennadiy Korotkevich Wins 2018 Topcoder Open Marathon

  …e period. Every participant’s name and results are then put into a table, which all the participants have access to. Based on this table, the final decision is made. A total of 12 participants were allowed to go to the USA to take part in the competition’s finals, which lasted for ten hours. ITMO University PhD student Gennady Korotkevich took first prize. …

  19.11.2018

• Alfa-Bank Scholarship Winners on How to Innovate the Most Innovative University Out There

  …ance is a scholarship contest organized by one of Russia’s largest commercial banks, Alfa-Bank, as part of its philanthropic activities. It covers 17 national universities in total, offering its students with a monthly scholarship worth 10,000 rubles for the duration of two academic years. The only condition for the prolongation of the scholarship period is for a can…

  19.11.2018