⚡️ Skoltech and Gorchakov Fund Officially Launch the InteRussia Fellowship in Life Sciences
The fellowship was inaugurated at a formal opening ceremony held at the Skoltech campus, where the leadership of the Institute and the Fund welcomed this year's participants — specialists in agricultural biotechnology and biology from Azerbaijan, Ghana, Cuba, Nigeria, China, and Turkmenistan.
Throughout the program, the fellows will attend masterclasses and workshops led by life science experts, hold meetings with specialists, and explore the rich cultural and historical landmarks of Moscow.
The fellowship is implemented by the Mezhdunarodniki Autonomous Non-Profit Organization in cooperation with the Gorchakov Fund, Skoltech, and the Presidential Grants Foundation.
The fellowship was inaugurated at a formal opening ceremony held at the Skoltech campus, where the leadership of the Institute and the Fund welcomed this year's participants — specialists in agricultural biotechnology and biology from Azerbaijan, Ghana, Cuba, Nigeria, China, and Turkmenistan.
Throughout the program, the fellows will attend masterclasses and workshops led by life science experts, hold meetings with specialists, and explore the rich cultural and historical landmarks of Moscow.
As Felicio Pedro Awuitor, a program fellow from Ghana, shared: "I enjoy Russia, and I want to show appreciation to the InteRussia team for what they've done by bringing us all together."
The fellowship is implemented by the Mezhdunarodniki Autonomous Non-Profit Organization in cooperation with the Gorchakov Fund, Skoltech, and the Presidential Grants Foundation.
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🛰 Errol Musk Agrees to Become a Mentor for the 2026 "Innovation Workshop"
Errol Musk — an engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, and father of Elon Musk — visited Skoltech. He is known for his engineering projects in the fields of energy and aviation, as well as for his interest in physics, gravity, and the nature of space-time.
During his visit, the entrepreneur was shown the Institute's world-class infrastructure and introduced to its advanced student and faculty projects. Errol Musk noted Skoltech's excellent facilities and its great potential for conducting complex scientific research.
In the course of the conversation, the entrepreneur emphasized the importance of advancing research in gravity and space-time.
At the conclusion of the visit, Skoltech's President, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Kuleshov, and Errol Musk discussed prospects for the development of high-tech projects. Errol Musk expressed his intention to come to Skoltech next year to participate as a mentor of the "Innovation Workshop."
Errol Musk — an engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, and father of Elon Musk — visited Skoltech. He is known for his engineering projects in the fields of energy and aviation, as well as for his interest in physics, gravity, and the nature of space-time.
During his visit, the entrepreneur was shown the Institute's world-class infrastructure and introduced to its advanced student and faculty projects. Errol Musk noted Skoltech's excellent facilities and its great potential for conducting complex scientific research.
In the course of the conversation, the entrepreneur emphasized the importance of advancing research in gravity and space-time.
"But then the country or the organization or the place that discovers the solution to this particular problem will be the leading country in the world for the next few hundred years," Musk noted. "So if Russia were to find out, they would have control over the world for a long time."
At the conclusion of the visit, Skoltech's President, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Kuleshov, and Errol Musk discussed prospects for the development of high-tech projects. Errol Musk expressed his intention to come to Skoltech next year to participate as a mentor of the "Innovation Workshop."
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🆕 Researchers from Skoltech, ITMO University and their colleagues have reported new findings about the behavior of microbubbles exposed to ultrasound. The work was published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia and was supported by grants from the Russian Science Foundation.
Microbubbles are already used in diagnostics, but their potential for therapy is immense. The study's results pave the way for creating safe and stable bubbles for noninvasive therapeutic technologies, such as activating anti-cancer drugs directly inside a tumor and delivering drugs to the brain through the blood-brain barrier.
The research showed that stabilizing additives make the bubbles more resilient and "calm," reducing the intensity of their pulsation by almost half. This transforms the process from chaotic bubbling into controlled pulsation. The shape and mobility of red blood cells were unaffected by the bubbles, so they do not disrupt the normal flow of blood and are potentially safe for administering into the body.
The work demonstrates that understanding the physics of microbubbles is the key to future noninvasive treatment methods where ultrasound becomes a tool for precise and safe interaction with the body.
Microbubbles are already used in diagnostics, but their potential for therapy is immense. The study's results pave the way for creating safe and stable bubbles for noninvasive therapeutic technologies, such as activating anti-cancer drugs directly inside a tumor and delivering drugs to the brain through the blood-brain barrier.
“Rather than work with living tissue, we aimed to figure out the physics of the bubbles,” said the lead author of the paper, Junior Research Scientist Tatiana Estifeeva from Skoltech Photonics. “When we know precisely how the bubbles behave at every stage, we can purposely design stable and safe chemical compositions to keep a handle on everything from the state of the protein molecules in the bubble shell to the effects on blood. In the future, such thoroughly researched bubbles could be used not just for visualization but for therapies that employ ultrasound as a very targeted and mild intervention.”
The research showed that stabilizing additives make the bubbles more resilient and "calm," reducing the intensity of their pulsation by almost half. This transforms the process from chaotic bubbling into controlled pulsation. The shape and mobility of red blood cells were unaffected by the bubbles, so they do not disrupt the normal flow of blood and are potentially safe for administering into the body.
The work demonstrates that understanding the physics of microbubbles is the key to future noninvasive treatment methods where ultrasound becomes a tool for precise and safe interaction with the body.
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🆕 Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a fundamental physical law that governs the seemingly chaotic motion of chromosomes inside a living cell. The results have been published in the Physical Review Research journal and are supported by grants from the Russian Science Foundation and the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
This discovery helps solve a long-standing biological mystery of how two-meter long DNA molecules, packed into dense chromosomes, remain mobile enough for vital processes such as turning genes on and off.
This discovery helps solve a long-standing biological mystery of how two-meter long DNA molecules, packed into dense chromosomes, remain mobile enough for vital processes such as turning genes on and off.
Kirill Polovnikov, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the Skoltech Neuro Center: “We developed a statistical physical model that shows that the motion of chromosome sections, as long polymer chains, obeys a universal physical law independent of the minute details of their structure. The key to the solution lies in considering not the point-like, but the collective motion of entire DNA segments. It turns out that the ability of a gene on a chromosome to shift as a whole (i.e., the diffusion coefficient of its center of mass) is inversely proportional to the number of letters in its nucleotide sequence. This is a universal principle of polymer chains, valid both in thermodynamic equilibrium and under cellular activity conditions, and is fundamentally linked to Newton’s third law.”
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🌎 From Shanghai to Stockholm: Skoltech scientists share cutting-edge research at leading global science forums
📍 China
— In Hangzhou, Associate Professor Dzmitry Tsetserukou, the head of the Engineering Center’s Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, and PhD student Artem Lykov (Engineering Systems program), took part in one of the world's premier robotics conferences — the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025). The Skoltech representatives presented talks on swarms of autonomous robots controlled by generative AI and on drone control using language models. Dzmitry also conducted a workshop on multi-agent cooperative systems and robot swarms in the generative AI era. The workshop was organized with the participation of Skoltech PhD student Oleg Sautenkov and representatives from Peking University.
— In Nanjing, Professor Albert Nasibulin from the Photonics Center gave an invited talk at the
2025 Jiangsu International Exchange Week on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research, and Application, where he discussed single-walled carbon nanotubes and their applications in electronics and optoelectronics.
— In Shanghai, Assistant Professor Dmitry Kolomensky, Associate Professor Dmitry Dzhurinskiy from the Materials Center, and Sergei Vasilyev, the deputy head of the Academic Relations Department, took part in the 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals. In Xi'an, Sergei Vasilyev delivered a presentation on transferring laboratory developments to industry. During the visit, they discussed the establishment of a joint laboratory with Northwestern Polytechnical University and cooperation with Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School.
— In Zhengzhou, Assistant Professor Yury Yanovich from the Wireless Center and Research Scientist Yash Madhwal from the center’s 6G Laboratory participated in the 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain. They presented research on a novel non-transferable NFT-based access control architecture that enhances scalability and privacy in decentralized systems.
📍 UAE
— In Abu Dhabi, Associate Professor Alexey Zaytsev from the AI Center presented a poster at the Workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI hosted by Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. He presented a theoretical framework for self-supervised contrastive learning of continuously dependent data.
📍 Turkey
— In Istanbul, Assistant Professor Maxim Sharaev, who co-directs the AI Center’s Skoltech-University of Sharjah BIMAI Lab, and Svetlana Illarionova, who heads a research group at the AI Center, presented two papers at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools, and Application. They presented a new method for synthesizing medical images to diagnose complex neurological pathologies and the application of generative AI for virtual staining of biological tissues.
📍 Sweden
— In Stockholm, at the European Space Weather Week, research led by Associate Professor Tatiana Podladchikova, who heads the Engineering Center was recognized as the scientific highlight of the session. It models the "garden hose" effect in the interaction of the solar wind with satellites and paves the way for earlier and more accurate forecasting of space weather to protect orbital and terrestrial infrastructure.
📍 China
— In Hangzhou, Associate Professor Dzmitry Tsetserukou, the head of the Engineering Center’s Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, and PhD student Artem Lykov (Engineering Systems program), took part in one of the world's premier robotics conferences — the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025). The Skoltech representatives presented talks on swarms of autonomous robots controlled by generative AI and on drone control using language models. Dzmitry also conducted a workshop on multi-agent cooperative systems and robot swarms in the generative AI era. The workshop was organized with the participation of Skoltech PhD student Oleg Sautenkov and representatives from Peking University.
— In Nanjing, Professor Albert Nasibulin from the Photonics Center gave an invited talk at the
2025 Jiangsu International Exchange Week on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research, and Application, where he discussed single-walled carbon nanotubes and their applications in electronics and optoelectronics.
— In Shanghai, Assistant Professor Dmitry Kolomensky, Associate Professor Dmitry Dzhurinskiy from the Materials Center, and Sergei Vasilyev, the deputy head of the Academic Relations Department, took part in the 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals. In Xi'an, Sergei Vasilyev delivered a presentation on transferring laboratory developments to industry. During the visit, they discussed the establishment of a joint laboratory with Northwestern Polytechnical University and cooperation with Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School.
— In Zhengzhou, Assistant Professor Yury Yanovich from the Wireless Center and Research Scientist Yash Madhwal from the center’s 6G Laboratory participated in the 8th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain. They presented research on a novel non-transferable NFT-based access control architecture that enhances scalability and privacy in decentralized systems.
📍 UAE
— In Abu Dhabi, Associate Professor Alexey Zaytsev from the AI Center presented a poster at the Workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI hosted by Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. He presented a theoretical framework for self-supervised contrastive learning of continuously dependent data.
📍 Turkey
— In Istanbul, Assistant Professor Maxim Sharaev, who co-directs the AI Center’s Skoltech-University of Sharjah BIMAI Lab, and Svetlana Illarionova, who heads a research group at the AI Center, presented two papers at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools, and Application. They presented a new method for synthesizing medical images to diagnose complex neurological pathologies and the application of generative AI for virtual staining of biological tissues.
📍 Sweden
— In Stockholm, at the European Space Weather Week, research led by Associate Professor Tatiana Podladchikova, who heads the Engineering Center was recognized as the scientific highlight of the session. It models the "garden hose" effect in the interaction of the solar wind with satellites and paves the way for earlier and more accurate forecasting of space weather to protect orbital and terrestrial infrastructure.
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🚀 Skoltech has presented its 2030 Strategy
Skoltech enters a new stage of development — the path towards leadership in creating critical technologies for Russia.
The new strategy defines the following goals:
🔹 Unites science, education, and industry.
🔹 Building an ecosystem where ideas turn into solutions and research becomes real technology.
Learn more about our plans on the official Skoltech website.
Skoltech enters a new stage of development — the path towards leadership in creating critical technologies for Russia.
The new strategy defines the following goals:
🔹 Unites science, education, and industry.
🔹 Building an ecosystem where ideas turn into solutions and research becomes real technology.
Learn more about our plans on the official Skoltech website.
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⭐️ Have you ever wondered just how long a single light-day can be?
On November 13, 2025, the Voyager 1 probe, the human-made object that has traveled the farthest from Earth, marks a symbolic anniversary that answers this question perfectly.
After 50 years of continuous flight, it has covered a distance equal to just one light-day. This means a signal from Earth, traveling at the speed of light, would need only a single day to catch up with the spacecraft humanity launched half a century ago.
But any long journey begins with an understanding of one's own home. This is precisely the task being undertaken by a team of scientists from Skoltech, under the scientific leadership of Associate Professor, Head of the Skoltech Engineering Center Tatiana Podladchikova. Her team studies the solar space weather, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft mission design, thereby laying the groundwork for future expeditions. The kind that will one day cover the distances we can only imagine today.
On November 13, 2025, the Voyager 1 probe, the human-made object that has traveled the farthest from Earth, marks a symbolic anniversary that answers this question perfectly.
After 50 years of continuous flight, it has covered a distance equal to just one light-day. This means a signal from Earth, traveling at the speed of light, would need only a single day to catch up with the spacecraft humanity launched half a century ago.
But any long journey begins with an understanding of one's own home. This is precisely the task being undertaken by a team of scientists from Skoltech, under the scientific leadership of Associate Professor, Head of the Skoltech Engineering Center Tatiana Podladchikova. Her team studies the solar space weather, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft mission design, thereby laying the groundwork for future expeditions. The kind that will one day cover the distances we can only imagine today.
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