Molecular and Cellular Biomedical Technologies Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)

Overview

Key facts

• Why should you choose the Molecular and Cellular Biomedical Technologies course offered at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)?
• The strong connection between Education and Science 

• Interdisciplinary knowledge at the intersection of biology, pharmacology, cell, and molecular medicine. 

• Skills and knowledge at the new biomedical technologies 

• Prospective employment in Scientific research
• Key competencies and skills that you will develop
• Research skills in molecular and cellular biology, immunobiotechnology 
• Up-to-date technologies for drug and vaccine design 
• Skills in molecular modelling and bioinformatics 

• Basics of the preclinical trials
• Master’s thesis topics:
• Preparation and characterization of a reassortant candidate vaccine strain of influenza virus A / UNL / HK/2:6/2017(H5N8) 
• Molecular genetic characteristics of influenza A viruses circulating in Russia during the epidemic seasons 2016-2018 
• Adaptation of influenza virus H2N2 to reproduction in the lungs of mice and analysis of concomitant mutations 
• Physicochemical and structural characteristics of recombinant proteins based on M2 and HA2 influenza A viruses 
• Variability of the F and G genes of human respiratory syncytial virus strains isolated in 2014-2016 in St. Petersburg 
• The study of cold adapted influenza vector with the insertion of tuberculosis antigen ESAT6 
• The role of reactive oxygen species in the regulation of proliferation of human embryonic stem cells 
• Physico-chemical characterization of SQSTM1 protein and its deletion form 
• The neuroprotective effect of CGRP in hyperactivation of glutamate receptors in neurons of the cerebral cortex and cerebellum in vitro 
• Cloning and characterization of α-L-fucosidase from Fusarium proliferatum LE1