Search by tag «Gene Therapy» 5 results

• Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for MicroRNA: ITMO Expert Explains Significance

  In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” We asked Oleg Kuchur, a PhD in biology and assistant at ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster, all about microRNA and its applications. Read on to find out his answers.

  07.10.2024

• BIOCAD VP Roman Ivanov: “Biotechnologies are the Cornerstone of Medicine of Tomorrow”

  Roman Ivanov, the Vice President of BIOCAD, had once returned to Russia from the Netherlands and has spent ten years in charge of R&D and international relations for the top company on the Russian biotechnology market. During an open lecture at ITMO University’s Biochemistry Cluster, he discussed Russian science, prospects of world-class R&D at the nation’s companies and what students need to know about starting a career in hi-tech. Below are excerpts from his lecture:

  15.11.2018

• ITMO Technopark Resident Receives 44 Million for HIV Cure Development

  The company AGCT, a resident of ITMO University’s Technopark, will receive funding of more than 44 million rubles from RBV Capital Fund. The contract was signed during the Startup Village conference. The company is working on development of a complete cure for HIV. Startup Village also featured the residents of the Future Technologies business accelerator and the “New Generation of Supercapacitors” project headed by advisor to ITMO’s Vice Rector for Research.

  13.07.2017

• Technopark Resident Develops Technology for Accelerated Regeneration, Extended Wakefulness and Delayed Aging

  The company “ATG Service Gene”, a resident of ITMO University’s Technopark, has developed a technology that, in future, could be used to create drugs that could boost regeneration, prolong wakefulness, slow aging, relieve pain and treat cancerous tumors. This technology also has the potential to treat other illnesses, including infectious ones. It is based on gene-encoding proteins responsible for the organism’s therapeutic processes. It has the potential to stimulate the organism to produce an increased amount of material needed to cure an illness. Such gene encoding can even alter the structure of diseased cells thus causing them to self-destruct. The company is currently working on gene therapy drugs for this purpose. 

  23.05.2017

• Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material

  Everyone knows what cellulose is, as it is the most widespread polysaccharide on the planet. Most know how important it is to industry. Yet, few remember the second most widespread polysaccharide — chitin. Chitin is the main component of exoskeletons of arthropods and some other invertebrates, and is an important component of the cellular walls of fungi and bacteria. This polysaccharide and its applications in medicine, food industry and radiation protection was the topic of the recent collaborative session of the Russian Chitin Society and ITMO's Department of Meat and Fish Processing and Refrigeration.

  24.01.2017