ASU develops innovative medicines in the framework of strategic project

Altai State University together with the Institute for Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences started to implement a project for creation of medicines made of wild plant materials cultivated in Altai.

"We plan to reach the level of creating a substance in the form of a dry extract, and then we are going to receive a medicine through the development of a biologically active additive. The substance will be developed in the Altai State University,” Director of the Scientific and Research Institute for Biological Medicine of Altai State University, Doctor of Biology, Professor Vyacheslav V. Lampatov said. "This is an interdisciplinary project in which three structural units of Altai State University take part. They are the Research Institute for Biological Medicine, the South Siberian Botanical Garden and the Altai Center for Applied Biotechnology."

Previously, scientists of Altai State University together with the Ministry of Health of Altai Krai studied the structure of morbidity of the population in the region, as well as Russian statistics for reasons of disability and deaths, which showed that in this respect, cardiovascular pathology takes the first place in Russia.

"Therefore, we started to create medicines aimed at people suffering from this problem. In future we plan to develop herbal remedies for regenerative medicine and drugs that have adaptogenic (general toning, strengthening) effect, which, according to our assumptions, will be in demand not only among ordinary people, but also among athletes. In particular, the property of these drugs to increase the resistance of human body to various kinds of unfavorable factors is in demand among athletes during training or in the process of rehabilitation. These adaptogenic medicines are also in demand among people of extreme professions working in the Far North, under water, etc.," Director of the Research Institute for Biological Medicine explained.

According to Vyacheslav V. Lampatov, the drugs that strengthen human immunity are based on medicinal plants mainly growing in the Far East. They are considered to be rare or endangered in Altai Krai. For example, Rhodiola rosea or Golden root. Therefore, ASU scientists plan to make similar pmedicines from plants that grow in the foothills of Altai Krai and Altai RepublicThis refers to Dasiphora.

It is to be reminded that ASU is an active participant in the all-Russian project on the revival of medicinal plant growing. In November 2017 Altai State University became a member of the Federal Association of Manufacturers and Consumers of Traditional Herbal Medicines supervised by Healthnet National Technological Initiative.