Skolkovo representatives gave a high rating to biotechnological capacity of ASU

20 August 2016 Public Relations Department
The 7th Stolypin Conference “Regions of Siberia: Opportunities for Economic Growth” finished its work yesterday. Altai State University took an active part in the event.

The conference guests (representatives of Skolkovo and FoodNet) got acquainted with scientific background and latest developments of ASU scientists. In particular, they were shown the work of Russian-American Anti-Cancer Center, Scientific and Research Institute for Biological Medicine and Altai Center of Applied Biotechnology.

“I liked the fact that biotechnological research of Altai State University stays up to date with world’s modern trends. At Stolypin Conference I delivered a report concerning prospects for biotechnology development and I would like to note that Altai State University has better quality of research in several biotechnology directions then other academic organizations,” said director of project office under Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology, Candidate of Economics Dmitry Yu. Katalevskiy. “In particular, it includes cell technologies, cancer research and pharmaceutical developments. Obviously, a number of projects are still at the early stage, but they are very promising. It is very difficult to select the most important research areas in terms of limited finance, but ASU managed to create an organic plan, which will definitely produce excellent results in future. I also liked that some of these diversified technologies are already in demand. Thus, original virus-free seed potato growing is a very relevant project for Russia in general. Special programs in this area are created at the federal level. For the present moment it is reasonable to have a portfolio consisting of different research initiatives on different maturity stages, as science develops rapidly and no one knows what development will become popular and relevant tomorrow. As for me, Altai State University has picked up on a trend and moves in a right direction,” summed up Dmitry Katalevskiy.

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