Two Skolkovo resident startups were included in the TekhUspekh (TechUp) rating of fast-growing Russian tech companies announced at Moscow State University last week. Eidos ( Ensim ), which makes surgery simulators for training surgeons and medical students...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident that makes medical exoskeletons that enable disabled people to walk again, won the RBC media group’s award for the Breakthrough of the Year in an awards ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday evening. The startup received the...
Two Skolkovo-backed startups, Motorica and Caterwil , have been awarded Hope in Technology prizes by the Trade and Industry Ministry in the category of social projects using rehabilitation technologies and devices. Ilya Chekh, head of Motorica (left)...
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...
The head of Skolkovo resident startup Motorica , which makes hi-tech prostheses, has been awarded the Made in Russia prize for science and technology organised by Snob magazine. Motorica director Ilya Chekh pictured at the Skolkovo innovation centre earlier...
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...
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...
DRD Biotech , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes rapid tests for diagnosing strokes and other conditions affecting the brain, won second prize at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award in Tokyo this week, taking home 500,000 yen ($4,700). ...
Dozens of young tech entrepreneurs left the fourth annual Startup Village elated on Friday after winning cash prizes of up to 3 million rubles ($45,000) in a competition at the culmination of the two-day event held at the Skolkovo innovation centre. Multikubik...
Skolkovo resident DRD Biotech has unveiled its testing kits for swiftly determining the risk of a stroke. DRD Biotech presented its testing kits in the company's hometown of Ulan-Ude, capital of Russia's Buryatia republic . The tests are...
The winners of the far eastern stage of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour have been announced in Vladivostok, with projects in the biomedicine category leading the way. About 120 projects were presented to the jury in the categories of IT, industrial...
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...
Crowdfunded scientific project OhmyGut , which allows curious Muscovites to discover what’s really going on inside their bellies, has proved a hit, raising more than twice its target amount of funding over two weeks before its completion deadline. ...
A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...
Skolkovo’s Biomed Cluster is expecting around 30 to 40 agriculture-based startups to become residents in the coming months as the Russian government moves to encourage high-tech innovation in food production. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, the executive...
The special health authority that plays a key role in deciding which medicines and healthcare devices are bought up and distributed across Britain’s National Health Service came to Skolkovo on Friday in search of new innovations. Representatives from...
NCL, a resident of Skolkovo’s biomed cluster, has unveiled a prototype laser lancet – a contactless device that punctures the skin to harvest capillary blood samples. The lancet is intended for use by professional medical personnel for the collection...
The concept of omics may still leave most people baffled, but for science communities, this hugely promising approach to biolomedical research is already 25 years old and ignorance could be costly. Skolkovo, for its part, is taking no chances. The Hypercube...
Skolkovo resident biomed company Aelita has put a new anesthetic machine through five months of successful testing on real patients, passing a key test on the path to market entry. The machine, known as Anekom, is intended for inhalation anesthesia in combination...
Russia’s first bioprinter went on display Tuesday at an international bioprinting and biofabrication conference at the Skolkovo Hypercube. For the second year running the Skolkovo Innovation Center is holding one of the world's top events in biotechnology...