MEPhI: Laboratory for Growing and Transplanting Living Tissues

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2025: Lab Launch

A laboratory for the cultivation and transplantation of living tissues has been launched at MEPhI. This became known in March 2025. In the new center, scientists and students will develop biocompatible equivalents of blood vessels, and in the future - other organs based on patient cells.

According to the press service of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the laboratory was created as a joint project of the Engineering and Physical Institute of Biomedicine NRNU MEPhI and the Scientific Institute "Rosatom" in Troitsk. This cooperation will allow combining the university's competencies in the field of biophysics and engineering with the technological developments of the nuclear corporation.

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The basis of the laboratory's technological infrastructure is a bio-fabricator developed by Rosatom specialists. This equipment allows you to grow various tissues of the body, including blood vessels. The complex equipment of the laboratory will give scientists the opportunity to work on modeling the processes of growing tissues at the micro level, which in the future will help to create full-fledged tissues of the body in real scale.

Rector of NRNU MEPhI Vladimir Shevchenko during the opening ceremony emphasized the special importance of the new scientific center. He noted that the work that is being done in the laboratory is an important part of engineering and physical activity and perhaps justifies it to the highest extent, since the results of these studies are aimed at saving lives.

Dmitry Baidarov, Director of the New Business Support Department of Rosatom State Corporation, expressed his opinion on the importance of training specialists to work with promising technologies. According to him, it is necessary that higher educational institutions prepare personnel for the technologies of the future, which are only developing. The faster the training programs are adapted to modern trends, the faster it will be possible to achieve real results in such laboratories.