Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
ExoAtlet premiered the world's first exoskeletons for children in as many as two versions, Mini and Midi. The premier was hosted by the annual symposium ExoRehab Spotlights in Skolkovo, which has been held by the Foundation's resident for three consecutive...
An innovative domestically developed device for extracorporeal blood purification has been registered in Russia: appropriate permit for clinical administration was issued by the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) This medical...
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...
Skolkovo resident company 3D Bioprinting Solutions has become the first company to use a 3D printer to create live tissue in space, printing an organ construct for the thyroid gland of a mouse on board the International Space Station (ISS) this month. ...
Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Skolkovo...
More than 150 students, developers and scientists working in the field of neuroscience spent a sleepless weekend at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on November 16-18 for a neuro-hackathon , racing each other in teams to find solutions...
Brain Beat , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster that has developed a non-invasive glucometer, won second prize at the 7 th Asian Entrepreneurship Award in Japan earlier this month. Edward Krizhanovsky, CEO of Brain Beat...
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...
Russian healthcare marked a major milestone on Wednesday with the opening of the branch of a top Israeli hospital at the Skolkovo innovation centre, meaning Russians can now access Israeli healthcare without having to leave the country. Prime Minister...
Four Skolkovo resident companies have been selected by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce and partners to take part in Start.up! Germany , an international business mission to Germany’s industrial heartland. The finalists of the pitching session...
Doc+ , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that provides telemedicine services, has raised investment of $9 million led by the Swedish venture fund Vostok New Ventures. Doc+ allows patients to arrange home visits by a range of medical...
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...
When the UNIM lab opened at the Skolkovo Technopark at the beginning of this year, it offered cancer patients around the country the chance to get expert opinions on their tumours by digitalizing slides and sending them to the world’s top specialists...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
The Skolkovo Technopark is once again getting ready to be taken over by robots for its annual Skolkovo Robotics Forum , which attracts robots – and the humans who make them – from all over the globe. As in previous years, Skolkovo Robotics...
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...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
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...
Skolkovo resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions made headlines around the world in 2015 when it printed a functioning thyroid construct and transplanted it successfully into a mouse. Now it looks set to make history again by sending a bioprinter into space. 3D...
In a year in which supercomputer capacity records are sure to be smashed once again, the European Union has already said it will spend 1 billion euros this year on the machines, which can be used to calculate anything from weather forecasts and oil and gas...
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...
Two of the top three prizes in a reality TV show that followed the fortunes of Russian tech startups went to residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. Vitaly Savelyev, commercial director of KB Avrora, receiving first prize for the Agrobot project. Photo...
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...