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...
Half of all Russian-origin innovative pharmaceuticals are developed by Skolkovo Foundation startups, Kirill Kaem, head of the organisation’s biomed cluster, told a meeting of the foundation’s council on Monday evening. Of about 1,400 pharmaceuticals...
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...
Д-р Рафаэль Беар возглавил медицинский центр Рамбам в 2007 году, а на следующий год началась война в Ливане, и боевики «Хезболлы» обстреливали ракетами север Израиля. Несколько ракет взорвалось непосредственно вблизи больницы, больных пришлось эвакуировать...
Skolkovo startup DRD Biotech has produced a working prototype of an express test that can determine in just a few minutes whether a person has had – or is at near-term risk of having – the most common kind of stroke. Svetlana Dambinova has...
The Biotech RusFrance 2016 conference kicked off Wednesday at the Skolkovo innovation centre with the aim of identifying new opportunities for cooperation in biotech. Alexis Michel, science and technology counsellor at the French Embassy, shows the conference...
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...
Ведущий кубинский биомедицинский концерн BioCubaFarma, продукты которого экспортируются в 50 стран, и биомедицинский кластер «Сколково» договорились о конкретных механизмах взаимодействия, подписав соглашение о сотрудничестве в рамках проходящей...
A group of students from Eton College, the U.K.’s most famous school, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they were inspired by a selection of Russian startups including an exo-skeleton, a microsatellite and a surgery simulator...
The first building of the Moscow International Medical Cluster (MMMK), a planned state-of-the-art medical facility being built at the Skolkovo innovation centre, is growing visibly on a daily basis. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited the site , where construction...
Napoleon once allegedly described England as a nation of shopkeepers, but if he were around today, he would say the U.K. is a nation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to U.K. clinical research expert Dr. Ignazio di Giovanna. Jonathan Brenton...
A Russian company is hoping to revolutionise the treatment of HIV patients around the world with the help of a grant from the Skolkovo Foundation. Currently, Russia's one million HIV patients take a daily cocktail of tablets. Viriom is working on...
Russian pharmaceutical companies looking to enter the U.K. market – and vice versa – will meet with their British counterparts at a two-day conference at the Skolkovo innovation centre next week to forge new partnerships in developing innovative...
«Куба могла бы стать отличным плацдармом для развития нашего бизнеса в Латинской Америке», - считает представитель Первого онкологического научно-консультационного центра (ПОНКЦ) Алексей Стрыгин. Его мнение по итогам поездки на Кубу разделяют другие...
«Достаточно неординарным событием» назвал Президент «Сколково» Виктор Вексельберг подписание соглашения о стратегическом партнерстве в области инноваций между компаниями Фонда и Центром генной инженерии и биотехнологий Кубы. В Гаване...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
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...
В Москве на ВДНХ завершил свою работу четвертый форум «Открытые инновации». Столичный мэр Сергей Собянин на правах хозяина предложил сделать ВДНХ постоянной площадкой для проведения «Открытых инноваций». Градоначальник отметил...
ГАВАНА. Четверть века назад бывший японский премьер Ясухиро Накасонэ изложил в книге «Государственная стратегия Японии в XXI веке» 10 приоритетных задач, от которых зависит будущее нации; первой в списке фигурировало создание лекарств от болезни...
ГАВАНА. Когда этот кубинец учился в Воронежском госуниверситете и впоследствии в МГУ, его звали Хосе Рауль, и однокурсники поражались его сходству с молодым Фиделем Кастро. Сходство и впрямь совершенно удивительное, и с возрастом оно только усилилось. 66-летний...
Skolkovo has begun accepting applications from startup companies in the agriculture business and expects its first residents by the end of the year, opening up new avenues of research that experts say are of critical importance for biotech in Russian and beyond...
Вторая за неделю представительная делегация из Бразилии посещает Фонд «Сколково». Вслед за министром науки, технологии и инноваций Жозе Алдо Ребело , в Фонде побывали представители штата Гояс во главе с вице-губернатором Жозе Элитоном Фигерейду...
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 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...