Strategic Academic Unit 2

Strategic Academic Unit 2 (StrAU 2): CENTRE OF POWER

A cross-disciplinary hub for clinical and basis medical research

StrAU 2 OVERVIEW

This element is the cornerstone of cross-disciplinary research platform to fight socially significant diseases and enhance life quality by application of latest achievements in regenerative and molecular medicine, structural and genomic bioinformatics and chemoinformatics. StrAU 2 is a multi-purpose hub bringing together research, academic and medical communities to respond the global healthcare challenges facilitating both fundamental studies and translational research, and also training the research staff in: medical biophysics, bedical biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biotechnology etc.

StrAU 2 GOALS

• Deployment of world-class centre for regenerative and molecular medicine, structural and genomic bioinformatics, chemoinformatics
• Promotion of the FMSMU international academic reputation
• Translation of research achievements into clinical practice
• Supporting relevant innovative startups

StrAU 2 COVERAGE

• Establishing and enhancing laboratories and institutes supervised by internationally recognized scientists
• Developing research staff education programmes of new generation
• Commercialization of innovative products/services in partnership with leading Russian and multinational companies and research organizations
• Establishing international partnerships for joint R&D, including international consortia

StrAU 2 KEY EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS

• Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Federation
• Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
• Russian universities participating in the 5-100 Project
• Russian Academy of Science (RAS) institutions
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Russian and foreign institutes and universities
• Global research community

StrAU 2 EXPECTED OVERALL OUTPUT

Self-developing cross-disciplinary hub for fundamental, pre-clinical and clinical research and fine tuning of practical research-based solutions in terms of life expectancy and life quality.

StrAU 2 FIRST AND FOREMOST 

Competitive research draft system determines the specialization of newly established structural units of Translational Medicine Centre: 

• Laboratory of chemoinformatics and computational pharmacology 

• Laboratory of structural bioinformatics and molecular modeling 

• Laboratory of medical genomics 

• Laboratory of tissue engineering 

• Laboratory of molecular viral biology 

• Laboratory of optical research methods, bio-imaging and 3D-modelling 

• Laboratory of biotechnologies 

• Laboratory of cell signal systems 

2. Cross-disciplinary clinical research hub for 5-100 Project participant universities 

 Sechenov University is arranging partnerships with medical and technical universities in sense of cross-disciplinary research competences and offering its own University hospitals for clinical trials of drugs and equipment. Sechenov University would like to coordinate biotechnology and biocompatible materials research with the universities participating in the 5-100 Project. Cooperation in cross-disciplinary biomedical research is the right way to reduce costs preserving research performance.