Personnel for the new biomedical industry
The All-Russian conference with elements of the scientific school will be held "Targeted training of specialists as a mechanism for operational staffing of the real sector of the economy" will be held on September 10, 2011 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The conference will focus on personnel training for a new type of industry – the biomedical industry.
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The transition to a knowledge-based economy imposes new serious requirements on the education system, which is a producer of specialists necessary for the market, especially in the fields of scientific and innovative activities. At present, when opportunities for freedom of scientific creativity, open exchange of information and international cooperation are expanding, it is necessary to modernize existing educational and scientific programs in real time. There is an awareness of the need for changes in the approaches and principles of functioning of educational and innovative activities, since the contribution of knowledge to economic development is now even more significant than financial investments and becomes crucial for building a competitive economy.
The development of biomedical technologies in recent years shows that an explosive growth of the biotechnology economy is possible in the world by 2020. This growth will require not only the involvement of thousands of specialists – engineers and biologists to work on one task, but will also set a new task for the education system – the training of specialists in the field of biomedical engineering. Such areas as regenerative medicine, bioelectronics, artificial neurons will require completely new competencies from yesterday's university graduates.
Facing the realities of the next stage of the transformation of global industry, the task of Russian universities is to prepare and understand – how can the training of scientific and technical leaders of tomorrow change? What kind of personnel will be needed for the new biomedical industry? What experience has been accumulated by Russian universities in training personnel for industrial enterprises, and how can this experience be used? How will the face of engineering education of the future change? How much is it possible to graduate biologists-engineers at all?
Main results of the conference
The result of the conference should be proposals for the development of a program for mass training of Russian citizens at the Open University of Singular Technologies – an information project on the portal opensingularity.ru .
Approximate topics of education for the futureRegenerative medicine
- Regenerative abilities of stem cells.
Therapeutic cloning. Development of tissue engineering methods. Selection of cells for tissue engineering. Creation of skeletons for tissue engineering. Cell therapy – removal of defective cells, addition of cells. Restoration of regenerative abilities. - Nanotechnology and materialsArtificial polyatomic bioassembly of extreme nanostructuring.
Tools of manipulators and sensors of the intramolecular level. Probe methods of investigation and modification of surfaces at the atomic level. Creation of manipulators and sensors at the intramolecular level. Portable energy sources based on new physical principles; energy sources using the energy of chemical reactions of the human body. Printing machines for printing tissues and organ frames. - Artificial intelligenceArtificial neural networks.
Fundamentals of the functioning of biological neural networks. Self-organization networks. Associative memory. Neuropackages. Prospects for the creation of individual elements and areas of the brain. - Postgenomic technologiesIdentification of human stress resistance genes, stimulation of the activity of which can contribute to a significant increase in life expectancy and slow down the development of age-dependent pathologies (carcinogenesis, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, deforming osteoarthritis, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, immune aging).
- Social network
Social Networking – new forms of society. New forms of business in social networks. The mathematics of social networks. Neural networks. Network research tasks. The future of Facebook apps. Social networks of the future. - Robotics and bioelectronics
Modern robotic systems. Robotic prosthetics of human limbs. Combined neuroinformation and bioelectronic control systems. Adaptive information systems of human biomechanics. Sensorics of human limbs. The element base of sensors based on new physical principles. - Futurology and road maps
Foresight methods. Road maps. Alternatives to the future.
The conference is held as an All-Russian platform for discussing the results of scientific work of Russian young scientists and postgraduates, exchanging views on the main areas of modern science between young and experienced researchers, for establishing direct scientific contacts among active scientific youth of Russia and neighboring countries.
Venue: Moscow building of MIPT, Moscow, Klimentovsky lane, 1, High Technology Center.
It is possible to participate in person or in absentia with the publication of abstracts in the collection of materials. If the participant is unable to come, one copy of the collection with printed abstracts will be sent to the author by mail after the conference.
The number of works submitted by one participant is unlimited. The number of co-authors of one work is also unlimited. Information about the scientific supervisors of the work is indicated at the end of the abstracts in a separate line.
Applications for participation in the conference and abstracts of papers are accepted by e-mail evgeniy@frtk.ru until August 19, 2011.
Details are available on the conference website.
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