PHILADELPHIA BIO, the flagship annual event in biomedicine and biotechnologies takes place in the Cellicon Valley on June 3–6 this year. The new name - Cellicon Valley - has not yet established itself as such a familiar term as Silicon Valley, but...
The First Russian Targeted Therapy Drug Developed with the Support of Skolkovo Foundation Has Entered the Clinical Trial Stage in Oncology The Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation has approved the conduct of the clinical trial to evaluate safety...
Three innovative biomed projects were selected as the winners of the Patents Power competition last week organised by the Skolkovo Foundation, the German pharma company Bayer and Rospatent, Russia’s federal intellectual property service. Finalists...
After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
A large part of the Skolkovo innovations ecosystem is preparing to head north to Russia’s second city this week for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ( SPIEF ), which takes place on May 24-26. Skolkovo startups and foundation...
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...
A pair of very special speakers took part in a conference devoted to 3D bioprinting in space at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday. Two cosmonauts – commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Oleg Artemyev – answered questions and interacted...
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...
A new lab opened at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday that looks set to drastically improve the diagnosis of cancer patients across Russia. Russia’s first digital lab was opened by UNIM , a resident of Skolkovo’s biomed cluster that uses...
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...
OncoTartis Inc., the U.S. daughter company of Skolkovo resident biomed startup OncoTartis , has raised $6 million in investment to develop its treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia. The acute myeloid leukaemia drug is being developed simultaneously in...
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...
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. ...
The Golden Autumn agricultural trade fair is to a large extent a celebration of Russian traditions. Individual regions of Russia present their local produce on their own stand, often accompanied by people dressed in folk costumes who sing, dance or play traditional...
Just four months after Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia’s biggest meat producers, signed an agreement with the Skolkovo Technopark to set up an agrotech accelerator there, the company has already identified a potential unicorn among Skolkovo startups....
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, which includes an agrotech division, signed two agreements with agricultural companies on Thursday at the second day of the Open Innovations forum. Kirill Kaem, left, and Alexei Kuznetsov, head of RusChemBio...
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...
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...
Russia and Israel look set to join forces to improve efficiency on Russian farms after Israel’s agriculture minister visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week, where it was agreed that a working group should be set up to facilitate joint research and...
“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...