Therapy of the future
In Skolkovo, Nobel laureates will gather for the conference "Therapy of the Future"
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The Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center will host the international conference "Therapy of the Future". For the first time in Russia, Nobel laureates Phillip Sharp (USA, joint Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Richard Roberts for 1993 – discovery of discontinuous or exon-intron structure) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japan, joint Prize in Physiology and Medicine with John Gurdon for 2012 – production of induced pluripotent stem cells) will take part in it. Leading experts in the field of biomedical research are also announced among the participants.
The conference is timed to coincide with the launch of two research centers of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) – the Center for Stem Cell Research and the Center for Biomedical Technologies and RNA Therapy. These institutions are headed by outstanding scientists – Anton Burns (Netherlands) and Viktor Kotelyansky (Russia and the USA). The biomedical conference will be held in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The conference will be held on May 26-28, 2014. Venue: Hypercube, Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Registration of participants (until May 12, but the organizers transparently hint that it is possible later – VM :) – here.
The program includes reports, master classes, and presentations of Skoltech biomedical research centers.
The Stem Cell Research Center was established in cooperation with the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands), the N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, the Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands, and the Whitehead Institute, USA.
The Center for Biomedical Technologies and RNA Therapy was established in cooperation with Moscow State University (MSU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) to combat infectious and oncological diseases.
Skoltech research centers are international projects combining research with education. The first biomedical centers for stem cell research and RNA therapy were established in 2013. By 2020, Skoltech intends to create 15 research centers. The directions of scientific research will be IT, space, energy and nuclear technologies. The world's best universities and scientists are involved in cooperation in the Centers.
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