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• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  Today Artem Oganov is rightly considered one of the most famous Russian scientists of the new generation. Oganov is a theoretical crystallographer and the creator of a number of new materials – as well as methods of discovering them. A few years ago he solved the problem of predicting the crystal structure of a substance based on its chemical composition. This problem was for long considered to be unsolvable. Oganov created software capable of predicting stable chemical compounds based on a set of initial elements. His discoveries are so impressive that many consider him one of the likely candidates for the Nobel Prize in the next few years. Having worked abroad for 17 years - in England, Switzerland and the United States - at 37 he decided to return to Russia, where he became a professor of Skoltech and headed the Laboratory of Computer Design of Materials at MIPT. During an open lecture at ITMO University, Oganov spoke about his career abroad, his return home, materials of the future and creation of an evolutionary mechanism for predicting substance structures, which proves that even in well-known areas of chemistry there are still many "blind spots". Main points of the event - in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  02.11.2017

• BIOCAD Expert: Building Teams in Innovative Businesses

  Why is it necessary to use a different approach when forming and developing teams for high-tech companies, and why don’t the methods of traditional business work? Tatiana Tangisheva, head of personnel development at the biotechnology company BIOCAD came to ITMO to conduct a workshop on the specifics of managing and working with employees in innovative companies and the top international practices. The “Team Management in Innovative Companies. Motivating Members of Creative and Intellectual Teams” workshop was held at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  31.10.2017

• Telemedicine in Russia: How IT Technologies Help Improve the Healthcare System

  According to Watson Health, a subdivision of IBM, the amount of data generated by each patient throughout his life exceeds 1000 terabytes. Yet, how can we store this data, effectively manage it as part of a common medical system, and what's most important, is the Russian healthcare system ready for a countrywide introduction of information technologies? The Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre has a medical information system that makes use of an experimental decision support system developed by ITMO University, and the country’s Federal Telemedicine Center has the opportunities to provide remote consultations to more than 5,000 patients a year, as well as training to medical specialists all over Russia. During a recent tour of the Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre, ITMO's Master's students learned about the modern medical information systems (MIS), the prospects of their applications, and the software that medical specialists will need in the future. ITMO.NEWS shares about the novelties of one of Russia's most advanced medical research centers.

  05.10.2017

• ITMO's Metamaterial MRI-Boosting Invention Praised by St. Petersburg Government

  A project by scientists from ITMO’s Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials that aims to improve the speed and quality of MRI scanning has won the first place in a competition for innovative projects in science and higher education. The competition was organized by the administration of St. Petersburg. Winners were announced at the St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum (SPIIF). The scientists’ invention shortens the time needed to perform an MRI scan by half and makes it cheaper.

  28.09.2017

• How IT Technology Saves Lives

  At ITMO University, as part of the orientation week for first-year students of the High-Performance Computing Department, a lecture was given by Alexei Yakovlev, head of Acute Coronary Syndrome Research Laboratory at the Almazov National Medical Research Center. Dr. Yakovlev spoke about how technology, doctors and patients interact with each other today and what the medical center does as part of its partnership with ITMO University.

  12.09.2017

• ITMO Scientists Help Link Alzheimer’s to Lack of Energy in Immune Cells

  An international scientific team that includes scientists from ITMO University has discovered why a mutation or lack of TREM2 protein in the nervous system of immune cells increases the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease. It turns out that in these cases, immune cells cease to receive nourishment and begin to “digest” themselves. The research was published in Cell journal.

  08.09.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  This summer, ITMO University and the Mendeleev National Research Institute of Metrology (VNIIM) have put out a call for applicants to a Master’s degree program in “Standardization and Metrology in High-Tech Industry”. The new Master’s program, developed by specialists from ITMO and VNIIM, consists of 20 highly specific subjects that exist on the intersection of math, computer science, physics, chemistry, economics and ecology.

  25.07.2017

• Forming Bonds: Visiting Scientists on Chemistry Research and Working Abroad

  Two young extraordinary scientists with extensive international experience – a chemist and a materials science engineer – came to ITMO to conduct research for a few months. They currently work in the Hey-Hawkins Group at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at Leipzig University. Sara Durini is a postdoc from Italy and Rafaella Precker is a Ph.D. student from Brazil. They both took part in research at the Solutions Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies (SCAMT) Laboratory at ITMO. The international news portal had an exclusive interview with them to learn more about their research.

  12.07.2017

• Rusnano Head Chubais: Five New Nanotech Clusters in Russia by 2027

  In the next ten years the Russian nanoindustry will be expanded with five new technological clusters. These are: windpower, solid-waste recycling, flexible electronics, industrial energy storage and nanomodified material. They will join the six clusters that have already been established in Russia since 2007. Anatoly Chubais, head of “Rusnano”, spoke about this at an open lecture in ITMO University. During the talk he analyzed the development of the Russian nanoindustry over the last ten years and gave his forecast on the industry for the upcoming 10 years.

  05.06.2017

• 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