The signing occurred at KFU on August 31st. Rector Ilshat Gafurov and Cochrane CEO Mark Wilson served as the signatories. Cochrane Russia was established at KFU in 2014 and was […]
Read moreNew Results in Research of Mechanisms of Fighting Pathogenic Viruses
KFU Omics Lab has succeeded in deciphering a Phi29-family virus genome. Junior Researcher Raihan Shah Mahmud told us about the current achievements, “There is an immense number of viruses in nature, hundreds of […]
Read moreKazan University Becomes More Involved in the Regional Healthcare System
A meeting of the Council of Medical Executives of Tatarstan was held on August 29th. The main topic was innovation and IT in medical facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan. […]
Read moreNew Tool for Cell-Free Therapy Based on Artificial Membrane Vesicles
Vesicles are small packages of material released from cells and act to deliver cargo and messages to adjacent and distant cells. Vesicles are known to be important regulators of normal physiology and […]
Read moreNew Surgical Materials to Be Showcased at the Army 2017 Expo in Moscow
Two researchers from KFU are being dispatched to the forum on August 22nd – 27th. Vyacheslav Averyanov and Almaz Garaev will partake in the Innovation Club, a forum event for military technology. Their […]
Read moreNazarbayev University and Kazan University: First Steps of Cooperation in Translational Medicine
A group of KFU Gene and Cell Technologies Lab employees visited colleagues in Kazakhstan. Kazan University team was headed by Lab Chair Albert Rizvanov. The two sides conducted experiments on […]
Read moreRussian Science Foundation Grant Winners: Neuronal Networks of Hippocampus
KFU Developmental Neurobiology Lab aims to discover how inhibition mechanisms in neuronal networks affect memory and learning processes. The results can be used to understand the nature of neurodegenerative diseases […]
Read moreRussian Science Foundation Grant Winners: New Antibiotics
A group of six researchers headed by Senior Research Associate of Structural Biology Lab Konstantin Usachev became one of the winners of this year’s RSF grants. 5 million rubles a […]
Read moreRussian Science Foundation Grant Winners: Dry Storage of Biomaterials
KFU was one of five institutions which won this year’s grant co-funded by Russian Science Foundation and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. KFU Extreme Biology Lab works […]
Read moreRusan Pharma Interested in Involving Kazan University in Research
Chairman of the company Navin Saxena arrived for negotiations on June 28th. This was a continuation of the recent visit by the Russian area manager of Rusan Pharma Ashok Kumar. […]
Read moreNew Wound Healing Properties of Ficin Researched at Kazan University
Ficin, an enzyme derived from figs latex, has been found to be active against biofilms. The project is headed by Senior Research Associate of the Microorganism Genetics Lab Ayrat Kayumov […]
Read moreCytokine Profile Differentiating Old World and New World Hantaviral Infections
Hantavirus infection is acute zoonosis clinically manifesting in two forms: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS), caused by Old World hantaviruses, and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), caused by New World […]
Read moreMegagrant Application Prospects Discussed with Leading Pharmacologists
Gjumrakch Aliev, founder of Gally International, joined the meeting on June 21st. New multi-targeting medications were talked about. Dr. Aliev said about his practice in the USA, “Currently 90% of […]
Read moreNew biomarkers of multiple sclerosis pathogenesis
Novel study of proinflammatory cytokines in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of multiple sclerosis patients was conducted by Kazan University’s Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a […]
Read moreKFU Paper Recognized as Best of the Month by French Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
KFU Structural Biology Lab and University of Strasbourg have discovered full ribosome structure of Staphylococcus aureus through cryo-electron HD microscopy. The results were published in Nucleic Acids Research. This paper […]
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