Educational program overview

Biotechnology is the discipline in-between science and technology with one of the fastest growth worldwide. It deals with employing living organisms and biological processes in order to design new products useful to human.

Nowadays biotechnology is considered to be among priority areas in both natural sciences and engineering. Molecular biotechnologists are equally researchers and engineers, who know how to manipulate molecules, genes, and cells. Molecular Biotechnology knowledge is especially vital for modern medical and pharmaceutical industry, as well as for current and future approaches in healthcare, where molecular and cell techniques are going to be applied more and more every year.

This rapid bioengineering expansion we are witnessing is explained by the robust progress in biology, especially in the areas of microbiology, enzymology, genetics, molecular and cell biology.

Advancement in each of these areas allowed to merge all the applied knowledge into a whole new discipline, that translates all the modern biology into the applied engineering, and knowledge of how it is achieved constitutes a new fundamental discipline, namely molecular biotechnology.

Career Prospects

The profession of molecular biotechnology is international and is in demand all over the world - the largest pharmacological companies hunt for good specialists in this field.

It allows to work in: universities, institutes, academies, colleges where you can work as lecturers and researchers, and make an academic career; research institutes, laboratories, research centers; scientific research institutes, laboratories, R & D centers of leading corporations, and technology startups.

Your expertise will be in demand in any field of activity where creative thinking and originality of decisions is required, based on fundamental knowledge in natural sciences and their applications for the benefit of people and the planet as a whole.

Why Institute of Life Sciences and Biomedicine?

The training is organized on the basis of the Department of Medical Biology and Biotechnology and the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine, the laboratories of which are equipped with unique equipment for studying molecules and cells, carrying out drug development, and performing preclinical tests of medical and pharmaceutical technologies. We develop project-oriented learning.

We encourage academic exchange and internships at the best universities and companies in the world.

We develop large international projects in the field of medical biotechnology, marine biotechnology, biotechnology and plant pharmacology.

With us you will learn

• Biotechnologies for obtaining amino acids, vitamins, antibiotics, proteins and other biopolymers, enzyme preparations.;
• Technology of genetic engineering and genome editing, based on the production and transfer of recombinant DNA and RNA, manipulations with the genomes of organisms;
• Technologies of cell and tissue bioengineering, based on the cultivation of living cells, the use of stem cells, creation of bio-artificial organs and tissues, development and application of biocompatible implantable materials, bio-printing.

Main teachers

Shevtzov Maxim, PhD, is leading the Centre for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine. Professor, expert in molecular oncology, molecular-cell biology, nanosystems of medical purpuse biology, with working experience in leading scientific centers in Russia and Germany.

Yevgeny Balakirev, PhD, Professor at the Department of Medical Biology and Biotechnology, Leading Researcher at the National Scientific Center for Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, famous geneticist, author of numerous publications in leading international scientific journals with vast experience of international scientific projects.

Stenkova Anna, PhD, Associate Professor, senior researcher of the DNA Diagnostics laboratory, specialized in molecular genetics of microorganisms, human genetics.

Shved Nikita, PhD, Associate Professor, specialized in cell biology and cell engineering, robotic technologies of cultivation and cell analysis.

Goncharov Nikolay, PhD, senior lecturer, specialized in genetic engineering, long trainee in National Cancer Institute, National Instituteы of Health.

Handy Maria, PhD, Associate Professor, specialized in plants biotechnology , development of cell cultures producing biologically active substances.

Main experts

Vladimir Katanaev, PhD, is leading the FEFU Laboratory for Pharmacology of the Natural Molecules, also holds a post of the Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), molecular and cell biologist, specializing in the development of novel anti-cancer therapies, cell signalling in normal cells and disease, author of numerous publications in leading international journals – Cell, Nature Communications, Development, and others.

Viktor Bulgakov, PhD, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Bioengineering at the Federal Scientific Center for Terrestrial Biodiversity of East Asia, a well-known molecular plant biotechnologist, pharmacist, specialist in genetic engineering and cell technologies, who specializes in the creation of biotechnological systems for the production of biologically active compounds and pharmaceuticals. He is the author of numerous publications in high-ranking international scientific journals.

Mikhail Skoblov, Ph.D., Head of the FEFU Genomic Medicine Laboratory, also holds a post of the Head of the Functional Genomics Laboratory of the Medical Genetic Research Center (Moscow), top expert in medical genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics, author of highly cited research papers in leading international magazines.