Advanced info technology and pharmaceutics projects presented at Russian StartUp Tour at FEFU

VLADIVOSTOK, April 2 (Itar-Tass) - Students, teachers, scientists and residents of the business incubator of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) on Wednesday presented their studies on the floor of the all-Russia programme for the development of and support for technological entrrpreneurship, the Russian StartUp Tour (RST). It is being held on the FEFU campus on Russkiy (Russian) Island. Sixteen projects in the fields of information technologies, the development of new materials, energy efficiency, and pharmaceutics have been introduced to potential investors. The stated ideas include the construction of unique dome houses, new methods for identification of carcinogens, advanced technologies for obtaining wheat malt and water-soluble antioxidants from vegetable rawstuffs of the Far East, the development of "brain stimulators" and "energy generators", as well as projects in the field of developing new biomedical materials and medicinal drugs. Potential investors and specialists from Skolkovo, Rosnano, the Seed Investment Foundation of the Russian Venture Company (RVC), Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, the Foundation for promoting the development of small-scale enterprises in the science and technology field acted as experts of the projects. Vladivostok is alreayd a 20th city in which RST is held this year. Mikhail Kharuzin, RVC investment manager, told Itar-Tass that, as compared with the first RST in 2013 where 16 cities were involved, the numbеr of suggested projects has doubled, or trebled for some regions. Most of the suggested projects are based on local unique resources of regions. "On the one hand, this is good, for it helps resolve the problems of regions. However, it is essential to look farther than that and offer projects that reach out to the global level," the RVC official pointed out. Organizers are of the opinion that Primorsky Territory participants in the RST have available all resources for that. A unique infrastructure has been established in Vladivostok, including the FEFU campus, which enables young people to work out projects and get down to implementing them early, at the stage of training, advancing them to both the Russian market and the markets of countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. The RST roadshow of Russian development institutions has been held since January 20 and is to continue until April 24 in 27 citites of the country. Presentations of advanced projects are held at each venue and meetings are arranged between entrepreneurs and developers and potential investors. From Vladivostok, the RST team will proceed on its way to Khabarovsk. The RST will end in Astrakhan on April 24. Learn more on itar-tass.com