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• Test Tube Meat, 3D-Printed Food: What We’ll Be Eating in 20 Years

  Various crises, famine, and population growth are already prompting humanity to reconsider its lifestyle, including nutrition. It's quite probable that in the future, we’ll be looking at some quite unusual products on our plates. Which frontier food technologies will help the industry solve global challenges and feed humanity? Anastasia Antonova, a PhD student and an assistant at the Faculty of Biotechnologies, expands on the subject.

  11.04.2025

• VDHAKATON Finals at ITMO: Winners Receive 1 Million Rubles for Transglutaminase Analog

  VDHAKATON2024, a hackathon focused on the development of innovative products for businesses, has concluded at ITMO University. Over six months, Master’s students of ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies worked on business cases with experts from 11 international and Russian companies. Students presented their MVPs (minimally viable products) at the final day of the hackathon. The first prize was awarded for a transglutaminase analog designed to help sausages retain their shape; the team working on the Edvanta case received 1 million rubles.

  07.04.2025

• ITMO Students Shine at VkusVill’s R&D Incubator

  Students from ITMO University have recently taken part in COLLAB 2K24, an incubator organized by VkusVill, a popular Russian grocery store chain. One team from ITMO took the second place in the dairy products track, having suggested a new high-protein yogurt with matcha powder and probiotics, while another team received the people’s choice award in the fish track after coming up with a frozen dinner option with pollack. Both teams will be improving their projects in collaboration with industry representatives to produce a test sample and then bring the new products to the shelves.

  20.01.2025

• Smart Expiration Date Indicators Developed at ITMO

  Researchers at ITMO University have developed fluorescent, quantum dot-based indicators for smart packaging – they can detect the actual expiration date of meat, fish, and chicken. When the indicator’s glow becomes dim under UV light, the product is no longer safe for consumption. The research team behind the idea was named one of the winners of the reality show Passion for Grants, in which contestants compete for grants from the Russian Science Foundation, and secured 6 million rubles for their research.

  03.12.2024

• AI Barista: Digital Coffee Taste Predictor To Be Developed at ITMO

  Scientists from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center are working on a digital barista, a smart system that will describe the taste of coffee grains without a human specialist. This project, developed with Siberian Federal University and business partners, is set to be used in vending coffee machines.

  13.09.2023

• Research Under Siege: How Leningrad Scientists Fought to Overcome Famine

  On May 9, Victory Day is celebrated in Russia to mark the end of World War II. In honor of the occasion, ITMO.NEWS and ITMO’s Historical Museum look back on the work of Leningrad scientists who developed new food products for the besieged city.

  05.05.2023

• Smart Packaging Explained

  When we choose what to buy, we usually look at the expiration date, brand, quality seals, ingredients, and price. But how do you know if the manufacturer is fully honest – or that the product was properly stored during shipping or while on the shelf? The answer could lie in smart food packaging, which is designed to help us trace the real expiration date and prevent counterfeiting. So, what is smart packaging and what does 3D printing have to do with it? We asked Chantal Tracey, a PhD student at ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster and a member of SCAMT Institute’s 3D Printing of Functional Nanomaterials Group.

  21.09.2022

• Ice Cream for Stress Relief: ITMO Scientists Create Functional Food Products Using Bioactive Substances

  The modern lifestyle and the pandemic cause stress, an increased workload, and growing antibiotic resistance. In their turn, these factors lead to low immunity and diseases, including the neurodegenerative kind. Scientists from ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies are working on a project that aims to solve these challenges through the application of biologically active substances in the development of new food products. The project has already received support from the Russian Science Foundation. ITMO.NEWS contacted Natalia Yakovchenko, the head of the project and of ITMO’s Functional & Specialized Nutrition specialization of the FoodTech program.

  01.02.2022

• ITMO University to Host the International Food BioTech Conference 2021

  The Food BioTech 2021 conference arranged by the School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems will take place on August 23-25, 2021. Leading scientists from all over the world will discuss results achieved in biotechnologies and the prospects of this field.

  05.02.2021

• Food of the Future: What’s to Come?

  Join us as we delve into the latest trends of the food industry, projects that aim to prevent disease using food, and see how the food of the future will differ from what’s on our plates today.

  04.12.2020