Skoltech Center of Life Sciences with support from Philip Morris International (PMI) affiliates in Russia initiated the annual Systems Biology Fellowship Program in 2016 aimed to support young Russian scientists. The winners defined by the expert panel receive a 3-year financial support of their research in the area of systems biology.
The 2016 winners were:
- Ekaterina Khrameeva from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology with project “Molecular signatures of normal and aberrant development, aging and longevity in human brain”;
- Ilya Vorontsov from the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics with project “Prioritizing non-coding variants by transcription regulatory potential”;
- Sergei Ryazansky, from the Institute of molecular genetics with project “Biological role of polymorphism of small RNA expression in Drosophila”;
- Mikhail Pogorelyy from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry with project “High throughput sequencing of identical twins TCR repertoires after yellow fever vaccination”;
- Anastasiya Ivanova from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry with project “High-throughoutput study of the genetic network controlled by the secreted regulator of the brain development and regeneration, Ag1, which was lost in higher vertebrates”.
During the Fellowship the young scientists have successfully continued their research and published more than 15 articles in high-rank scientific journals, attended conferences, participated in bioinformatical competitions, created programs for nucleotides sequence analysis.
On December 14th the winners have reported and discussed their three-year achievements during a resulting seminar in PMI Research & Development center in Neuchâtel, Switzerland with company’s scientists and Konstantin Severinov, the CLS director. The participants were impressed with the results and the quality of publications.
The PMI scientists in return introduced their innovative products with potentially reduced risk and its state-of-the-art research and gave a tour around laboratories where systems toxicology, bioinformatics, OMICs and organotypic cultures studies are held.
The Skoltech-PMI support of Russian young scientist “Systems Biology Fellowship” is going on. The next, fourth call for proposals will be announced in early 2019.
