A wireless pacemaker for the heart has won first place in a joint contest held by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Federal Agency for Science Organizations at the Open Innovations exhibition in Moscow.
All 14 of the finalists in Thursday’s contest will receive grants of 5 million rubles if they pass the minimum requirements to become residents of the Skolkovo ecosystem, said Vasily Belov, the foundation’s senior vice president for innovations.
The finalists. Photo: sk.ru
The winning project was headed up by Olga Bokeria of the Bakoulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.
“The real results of this contest are still to be judged,” said Belov. “They are based on what will happen further within these companies – how they will develop.”
Bokeria’s team’s innovation was a heart pace regulator that does away with wires and works more reliably than current models.
Second place went to Sergei Vorfolomeev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose team designed a high-power hybrid supercapacitor energy accumulator, while Nikolai Grinev claimed third place with his superhydrophobic covering on various surfaces.
All 14 projects were created by institutes affiliated with the Federal Agency for Science Organizations.
The jury consisted of FASO members as well as top management from Skolkovo’s research clusters.