Tomsk Region opens the Year of Science and Technology with a series of lectures by leading scientists from United Tomsk University. On January 28, Tomsk State University will start the baton of knowledge with lectures on biomedicine. Speakers are Ekaterina Marchenko, head of the Laboratory for Medical Alloys and Shape Memory Implants, SPTI TSU, and Yuri Kistenev, head of the Biophotonics Laboratory, executive director of the TSU Institute of Biomedicine.
The topic of the first lectures will be the innovations of TSU scientists, which are now being implemented as part of MegaGrants and are of interest to the global scientific community. Colleagues from other countries are willing to communicate with our specialists, and the innovations are assessed as high-tech and progressive.
Ekaterina Marchenko will talk about global scientific cooperation in the development of principles for superelastic material application. This is a project to create an implant–bio-tissue interface for reconstructive surgery, which involves highly qualified Medical materials experts from the USA, Germany, Canada and South Korea together with TSU scientists.
“The project aims to solve one of the most urgent problems in the creation of new medical implants, namely, ensuring maximum patient safety, treatment efficiency and appropriate implant choice. The development of principles for the biomechanical evaluation of the biointerface of titanium nickelide implants with coating and biotissues is a globally new stage of research,” says Ekaterina Marchenko, head of the Laboratory for Medical Alloys and Shape Memory Implants, SPTI TSU.
Ekaterina’s speech will be supplemented by the recorded speech of Alexey Volynsky, the MegaGrant leader, an expert in surface engineering of biomaterials, the University of South Florida (USA).
The lecture will be broadcast live on the TSU YouTube channel on January 28 from 13:00 to 13:40.
After a short break, at 13:45, Yuri Kistenev will speak about the second TSU MegaGrant – Medical Applications of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning.
This project aims to develop a fundamentally new non-invasive approach for diagnosing viral and bacterial infections. A large interdisciplinary team of specialists in biophotonics and IT technologies, as well as clinicians, are involved in elaboration of these diagnostic approaches.
The study of molecular markers is one of the ways of early diagnosis. Methods of laser molecular imaging enable efficient non-invasive detection of such markers. However, special analysis techniques are needed to extract meaningful information from a large amount of data. Among these, machine learning methods are most effective.
“The lecture will present examples of the combined use of laser molecular imaging and machine learning methods for solving problems of medical diagnostics,” says Yury Kistenev, executive director of the TSU Institute of Biomedicine.
Yury Kistenev’s lecture will be joined by Igor Lednev, the MegaGrant leader, a leading researcher from the University of Albany (New York), recognized specialist in Raman spectroscopy.
In 2020, scientists from Tomsk State University won two MegaGrants in biomedicine. The projects are aimed at developing a fundamentally new non-invasive approach for diagnosing viral and bacterial infections and creating an implant–bio-tissue interface for reconstructive surgery. The projects are designed for three years. The total value of the projects will attain 180 million rubles.
Source: TSU Press Service.