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...
The Skolkovo innovation centre is gearing up to host the third annual open-air Skolkovo Jazz Science festival this weekend, starring jazz musicians from all over the world and headlined by the legendary Russian saxophonist Igor Butman. The Skolkovo Jazz...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a landmark agreement with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Tuesday on the setting up of a corporate accelerator programme for biomed startups working on treatments and diagnosis systems for cancer, cardiovascular...
Four Skolkovo biomed startups have obtained sponsorship from Johnson & Johnson, and met with the U.S. multinational’s executive vice president and chief scientific officer Paul Stoffels during his recent visit to the innovation centre. Skolkovo...
Skolkovo resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions made headlines around the world in 2015 when it printed a functioning thyroid construct and transplanted it successfully into a mouse. Now it looks set to make history again by sending a bioprinter into space. 3D...
In a year in which supercomputer capacity records are sure to be smashed once again, the European Union has already said it will spend 1 billion euros this year on the machines, which can be used to calculate anything from weather forecasts and oil and gas...
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...
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering schools set about tackling the widening gap between engineering...
The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
A new state-of-the-art Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AM Lab) opened at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on Tuesday, boasting a globally unrivaled collection of 3D printers. The Insstek MX 1000, the biggest 3D printer...
Russia’s first commercial research biobank, National BioService , opened a brand new laboratory at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The National BioService lab at the Skolkovo Technopark will be used for both the company's own research and...
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...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
The first shared lab space in Russia for life sciences and biotech startups opened its doors at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday with a mission to help budding biomed entrepreneurs test their theories and turn their ideas into a commercial company. ...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
“Study, study, and study some more!” is one of the most often cited sayings of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. One hundred years after Lenin’s Bolshevik coup, Russia is undergoing another revolution. This time, it’s digital rather...
Pharm-Sintez.Lab , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s nuclear cluster, has developed a system for detecting rare forms of cancer in Russian patients. Lev Voloznev, CEO of Pharm-Sintez.Lab, pictured in his lab at the Skolkovo Technopark...
The second Skolkovo Jazz Science festival took place at the Skolkovo innovation city on August 26, attracting thousands of visitors for a day of first-class jazz, fascinating popular science lectures, interactive installations and much more. This year’s...
For most of the year, the typical sounds heard at the Skolkovo innovation city are those of distant hammering, as construction work on futuristic new buildings continues, or the whirring of a drone, as tech entrepreneurs experiment with their products. But...
The fifth annual Startup Village, a giant open-air event for hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors, opened Tuesday at the Skolkovo innovation city with the signing of two key agreements. Philips' Henk de Jong brandishes the symbolic key given to him...
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...
A joint scientific conference organised by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) kicked off at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday, marking the biggest joint event hosted by Skoltech...
The Skolkovo Foundation will spend the next few years focusing on developing tech entrepreneurship in Russia’s regions, the foundation’s chairman of the board told a meeting of its scientific advisory council on Tuesday. Nobel prize winners...
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...