Federal Center for Biotechnology Development

2023: Establishment of the Centre

In early November 2023, the head of the Republic of Mordovia, Artem Zdunov, spoke about the creation of the Federal Center for the Development of Biotechnology in the region and called the volume of investments in this project - 20 billion rubles.

The biotechnology center has already been created, we are developing it, "he said in a conversation with TASS.

Federal Center for Biotechnology Development created in Mordovia

The agency recalls that in September 2023, Zdunov, at a meeting with President RFVladimir Putin in the Kremlin, said that the Mordovia authorities expect to create a federal biotechnology center to ensure the country's drug safety.

Promomed is an industrial partner in the creation of the center, Pyotr Beliy, chairman of the group's board of directors, announced this in July 2023.

The results of the center will be available to all interested parties... Biological drugs will be created at the center, which open a new era in the treatment of a large group of diseases that were previously considered incurable, Beliy said then.

The development partner of the center is also Mordovian State University named after N.P. Ogarev. There, at the specialized department, specialists will be trained to work in the center of biotechnology. Other details of the project - the specification of funding sources, the planned production capacity and the nomenclature of drugs, the format of participation in the project of each of the partners - the parties did not disclose by November 8, 2023.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, biotechnological drugs are considered the most effective way to treat a wide range of diseases. The priority task in the production of such drugs is to ensure independence from foreign raw materials. It is for this that the Federal Center for the Development of Biotechnology was created in Mordovia.^[1]

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