A large group of top managers of AB InBev, the largest beer brewery in the world, visited the Skolkovo Foundation. Over several hours representatives of the Belgian company, led by Vice President for Global Solutions Tassilo Festetics, toured the Skolkovo Technopark...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company Bayer to launch a competition to help biotech startups advance their projects and secure their intellectual property rights. The competition, titled Patents...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum , following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with Janssen, a Belgium-headquartered subdivision of U.S. pharma giant Johnson & Johnson, with the aim of boosting innovative pharmaceutical research, including through financial support. Priority...
A delegation of more than 40 representatives of South Korea’s LG Electronics visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Monday to investigate opportunities for cooperation and meet some of Skolkovo’s hi-tech startups. LG Electronics' CTO...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the multinational pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca to carry out joint scientific research and educational activities in Russia. Irina Panarina, director of AstraZeneca Russia and...
Infectex , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, has completed clinical trials in Russia of its new drug for treating TB, the company announced on Friday, World Tuberculosis Day. The drug – SQ109 – has demonstrated high...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with BioCubaFarma, Cuba’s biggest biotech company, continuing a series of agreements and mutual visits between the foundation and the island nation. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, right...
Finland’s BioCity Technopark is to build a biotech technopark at the Skolkovo innovation centre under an agreement signed Tuesday at the ongoing International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference in Moscow. Kirill...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed an agreement with the Turku Science Park in Finland to create a 200 million euro ‘Biocity’ – a leading biomedical research facility. Victor Vekselberg, right, and Rikumatti Levomaki signing the deal...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
The Skolkovo Foundation is stepping up its efforts in the fight against cancer by putting its biomedical startups at the disposal of the oncological community. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, left, exchanging agreements with Sergei Tyulyandin in Moscow. Photo...