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• 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

• 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

• Like Doesn’t Cure Like: Homeopathy and Its Fake Medications

  Disputes on the effectiveness of homeopathy appeared a couple of centuries ago, when this field was invented, and remain relevant till these days. Recently, the Committee for Pseudoscience Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences released a memorandum devoted to criticism of homeopathy.

  01.03.2017

• VR for Medicine: from Placebo to Robotic Exoskeletons

  Usually, VR and AR technologies used in video game industry. However, today they are becoming effective tools that can be used for medical purposes. Read what scientists from different countries have achieved in this field in the digest by ITMO.NEWS.

  28.02.2017

• Visualization and Computation: ITMO to Collaborate with University of Oslo

  ITMO’s eScience Research Institute and University of Oslo have signed a memorandum of understanding. Andrei Karsakov, engineer of eScience Research Institute, and Anna Bilyatdinova, lecturer at the High Performance Computing Department, shared the details in an interview to ITMO.NEWS.

  06.02.2017

• Small and Smaller: Micro- and Nanoscale Robotics Can Help Doctors and Ecologists

  Huge robotic assistants no longer make a wow effect. The new trend is various technologies that can move atoms as LEGO blocks, grab ants, detect molecules and deliver drugs. ITMO.NEWS has prepared a digest on some new solutions in the field of robotics.

  30.01.2017