Ensuring Drug Security Forum

Medicine is constantly evolving and progressing, and one of the main components of this progress is biomedical technologies, which offer new possibilities for the creation of drugs that effectively combat various diseases. One of the key breakthroughs in modern medicine has been the development of personalized medicines. Biomarkers that are unique to individual patients or groups of patients enable physicians to administer the appropriate medications to achieve the best possible results. A key focus is the study of the human genome. Using modern DNA sequencing methods, scientists have managed to decipher the entire genome. This has made it possible to create individual medicines, taking into account a person’s genetic characteristics and predisposition to certain diseases. With the development of artificial intelligence, biomedical technologies are becoming even more advanced. Algorithms can analyse large volumes of data about diseases and clinical trial results, which helps scientists create new, more effective drugs. Biomedical technologies are contributing to the creation of new drugs. Personalized medicine, the use of stem cells, and advanced imaging techniques are providing more effective, precise, and minimally invasive treatments for various diseases. As biomedical technologies continue to advance, we can expect major advances in the development of medicines that will improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Which areas of high technology are the most promising and rapidly developing in global medical science? What innovative drugs for the treatment of socially significant diseases have been put into clinical practice today? What will help increase the availability of high-tech medical care to the population?

Moderator
Igor Borisevich, Deputy Head, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation

Igor Borisevich

Deputy Head, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation

Panellists
Badma Bashankaev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection
Konstantin Kotenko, Director, Academician B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery
Sergei Lukyanov, Rector, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Alexey Lundup, Director of the Scientific and Educational Resource Center for Cellular Technologies, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Ekaterina Priezzheva, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Sevastian Rabdano, Deputy Director for Development of New Medicines, Federal State Unitary Enterprise SPbNIIVS of the FMBA of Russia
Musa Khaitov, Director, National Research Center – Institute of Immunology of the FMBA of Russia

Badma Bashankaev

Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection

Konstantin Kotenko

Director, Academician B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery

Director of the Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honoured Doctor of the Russian Federation.
Biography:

1991: Graduated from Tselinograd State Medical Institute with a degree in General Medicine.
2001–2005: Head of Medical Unit No. 101, Chief Physician of Clinical Hospital No. 101 of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency in Lermontov, Stavropol Territory.

2003–2005: Deputy of the State Duma of Stavropol Territory.
2005–2015: General Director of the State Research Centre – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Centre.
2015–2016: Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administrative Directorate, Head of the Main Medical Department of the Presidential Administrative Directorate, Moscow.
2017–present: Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Biomedical Technologies at the Russian Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia.
2019–2020: Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the Kurchatov Institute.
2020-present: Director of the Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery.


Scientific Activity:
One of the leading specialists in the field of medical rehabilitation.
Author of over 730 scientific works, including 105 monographs and manuals, and approximately 35 patents and databases.
For his scientific and practical work, Kotenko has been twice awarded the Russian Government prizes in Science, Technology, and Education. He holds state awards including the Order of Honour, two Orders of Courage, and others, as well as a Commendation from the President of the Russian Federation.

Sergei Lukyanov

Rector, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Sergey Lukyanov graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985, majoring in Physiology. In 1986, started working at the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, rising in the ranks from Research Assistant to Head of Laboratory.
In 1994, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation ‘Cloning of a novel Xenopus homeobox gene XANF-1 by subtractive hybridization,’ which he completed at the Laboratory of Structure and Function of Human Genes under the supervision of Prof. Eugene D. Sverdlov. In 1999, he successfully defended his doctoral (DrSc) disseration ‘Selective suppression of polymerase chain reaction’ at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, advised by Prof. Eugene D. Sverdlov.
In 2003, he became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science and became a full Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011.
In 2010–2014, he received a mega grant from the Russian Government to create a fluorescent bio-imaging laboratory at Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy (now Privolzhsky Research Medical University). This laboratory became the foundation of the NNSMA Biomedical Technology Research Institute. In 2012–2013, served as Acting Assistant to the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation. In 2013–2015, was the Vice Rector of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU). He became Acting Rector on 29 April 2015 and was elected the Rector of RNRMU in 2016.
Over the course of his work, Lukyanov published more than 180 research papers in Russian and foreign journals (with an h-index of 58 and a ‘sum of times cited’ over 18,000 according to Web of Science) and patented 51 inventions.
In 2006, he was awared the Russian Academy of Sciences Ovchinnikov Prize for outstanding work in physicochemical biology and biotechnology for his paper ‘Fluorescent proteins: finding, investigation and use in biotechnology.’ In 2012, he was awarded the RUSNANOPRIZE Nanotechnology International Prize. In 2015, he was conferred the Russian Federation National Award in science and technology for the development and implementation of a technological complex for the analysis of compound genome structure and functions.

Alexey Lundup

Director of the Scientific and Educational Resource Center for Cellular Technologies, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Ekaterina Priezzheva

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Sevastian Rabdano

Deputy Director for Development of New Medicines, Federal State Unitary Enterprise SPbNIIVS of the FMBA of Russia

Musa Khaitov

Director, National Research Center – Institute of Immunology of the FMBA of Russia