Five Russian startups – the winners of the Startup Challenge accelerator organised jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and multinational pharma giant AstraZeneca – are showcasing their inventions at the International Future Healthcare Forum in the...
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and German researchers have found that the prevalence and concentration of certain fats in mammalian tissues varies greatly in the course of evolution, with the biggest number of evolution...
A Skoltech -led team of international scientists has developed a mathematical model that makes sense of one of the great mysteries that have long perplexed researchers of Saturn’s rings, and published the results of the research in the scientific journal...
Insilico Medicine , the parent company of Skolkovo resident biomed startup Insilico , has published a peer-review research paper calling for patients to regain control of their personal medical records, and even to profit from them. The Baltimore-based Insilico...
Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Alexander Kuleshov received the award at a...
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...
Scientists, tech entrepreneurs, students, professors and all other members of the Skolkovo innovation ecosystem now have access to the goldmine of scientific information compiled by the Elsevier publishing house. The Elsevier publishing house produces...
A Russian Cybathlon Federation was officially set up on Tuesday to develop the creation of technology to help disabled people, with the Skolkovo Foundation among the signatories of the founding document. The first international Cybathlon was held in Zurich...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo startup that makes medical exoskeletons for the rehabilitation of disabled people, has started clinical research into the use of its exoskeletons to help people with multiple sclerosis. An ExoAtlet exoskeleton being demonstrated...
Iran’s Islamic Azad University will set up an R&D centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre next year, the two sides agreed at the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference in Moscow on Tuesday. Under the...
A team of scientists led by Artem Oganov, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has used computer modelling to describe what materials make up the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, as well as their icy satellites. ...
Two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have teamed up to work on a secure communications system using quantum cryptography technology devised by Russian Quantum Centre (RQC) in conjunction with existing telecoms infrastructure developed...
A new English-language journal titled REACH – Reviews in Human Space Exploration was launched at the end of last month with Rupert Gerzer, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , as its editor-in-chief. Professor Rupert...
3D Bioprinting Solutions , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that made headlines last year when it printed the world’s first functional thyroid construct for a mouse, is to make a 3D bioprinter for printing tissue and organ constructs on board...
This week, NASA’s space probe Juno entered Jupiter’s orbit after a journey lasting nearly five years, and like astronautics experts and enthusiasts around the globe, Skolkovo’s space cluster was watching with bated breath. An artist's...
As the world discusses the ethics of growing human organs in pigs , scientists gathered at the Skolkovo Foundation last week to discuss an equally divisive topic: that of human genome modification. Scientists in the U.S. are currently making headlines...
A 3D printer for use in space is the end goal of a joint project between two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation – the companies Sputnix and Anisoprint – and Moscow Polytechnic University. Fyodor Antonov, director of Anisoprint., a resident...
A Skolkovo Foundation resident company that has developed a system for detecting large diamonds within kimberlite ores looks set to see mining giant Alrosa among its first customers, the director of science of the foundation’s nuclear technology cluster...
Scientists from four universities including the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) have published an overview of molecules that could help in the treatment and diagnosis of prostate cancer – the most common cancer among men in the...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomedicine cluster is to study the creation of a genetics centre that would guarantee Russia’s agricultural independence, after the foundation’s council approved the plan’s development. Biomedicine cluster...
Two members of the scientific advisory council of the Skolkovo Foundation have received UNESCO medals for their contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Mikhail Dubina and Gennady Krasnikov received their awards at UNESCO headquarters...
Edward Crawley, the charismatic U.S. professor who has headed the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) since its founding, on Friday officially handed over his duties as president to his Russian successor, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Edward...
As nations across the globe marked World Cancer Day on February 4, the Skolkovo Foundation announced the creation of a new Cancer Centre of Excellence. The new centre is set to coordinate the work of all the startup companies and partners currently working...
From its beginning, one of Skoltech’s guiding principles was to interface with industrial commercialization and venture opportunities as they develop at Skolkovo and elsewhere. This week Skoltech has realized this principle, as it has signed its first...
Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. Skolkovo's Alexandra Barshchevskaya, left, and Autodesk's...