Program Overview

Program Overview

The program in question is the Master's program in Technical Physics with a specialization in Medical Biotechnology, offered by the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Program Description

The program allows for the preparation of specialists in the field of obtaining, researching, and analyzing biotechnological and pharmaceutical products, as well as the successful application of biological science achievements in medicine and biotechnology. The uniqueness of the program lies in the fact that the preparation of specialists is carried out on the basis of in-depth physical and mathematical training, organically linked to medical and biological education.

Key Features

• The program combines physical and mathematical training with medical and biological education.
• It prepares specialists for work in the field of medical biotechnology.

Profile Disciplines

• Vascular transport and intracellular signal transmission
• Ionic mechanisms of cellular signaling
• Cellular biotechnology
• Cellular and gene engineering
• Cellular engineering and bioengineering of plants
• Molecular cloning
• Fractionation of biologically active substances

Professions of Graduates

• Medical physicist

Examples of Graduate Thesis Topics

• Analysis of metabolic heterogeneity of glioblastomas using PET/CT with 11C-methionine
• Influence of co-infections on metabolic changes in the brain in patients with HIV infection according to PET/CT data with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose
• Optimization of scanning time intervals during PET/CT of the brain with 11C-methionine
• Determination of electrophysiological criteria for violation of neuromuscular transmission against the background of acetylcholinesterase inhibition
• Possibilities of mathematical methods for studying the amplitude-frequency characteristics of human electroencephalograms

Significant Research Projects

• Polymer nanocomposites for tissue engineering and transplantology
• "Research and development in priority areas of development of the Russian Federation's scientific and technological complex for 2014-2020"
• "Intramolecular transition research"
• "Mechanisms of regulation of the mitochondrial pool of NAD in human cells"
• "Structure and properties of the unique non-virion RNA polymerase of the phiKZ bacteriophage"
• "Transportable adeno-associated viruses nucleases for a new generation of gene therapy preparations for inherited diseases"
• "Identification of mycoplasma proteins obtained from cell extracts by co-precipitation method using mass spectrometric analysis"

Research Laboratories

• Laboratory of "Polymer materials for tissue engineering and transplantology"
• Research and Education Center "RASA-SPbPU"
• Research laboratory of molecular virology and oncology
• Research complex "Nanobiotechnology"

Partner Organizations

• "SOGAZ MEDICINA" clinic group
• St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics)
• Almazov National Medical Research Center
• Southwestern Medical Center of the University of Texas at Dallas (Department of Physiology), USA
• Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza

Program Leadership

• Alexandra Valeryevna Brodskaya, Program Director
• Olga Leonidovna Vlasova, Scientific Director of the program