The Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine (PhysBio) at MEPhI has held the Open Day.

"XXI century is a century of life sciences people are interested to live long and at the same time to be active and healthy. It requires new technologies that allow to detect diseases at early stages, new safe methods of treatment, new materials and devices for diagnosis”, that’s how the director of the Institute I.N. Zavestovskaya began her speech. "All this requires the participation of not only doctors, but also engineers, physicists, biologists, chemists, which implies the development of fundamentally new interdisciplinary areas at the intersection of classical sciences."

As noted by director, MEPhI has the necessary opportunities for such interdisciplinary education. First of all, these are traditional Departments, which provide high-quality engineering and physical education, as well as a Medical faculty, which allows to train engineers-physicists with competences in the field of biomedical technologies and doctors with competences in the field of engineering and physical technologies. Secondly, the structure of the University is close to reality: it is possible to bring the development to the final product. And the third, most importantly, is the "culture of safe radiation exposure", nuclear medicine, which are superimposed by unique results in the field of nanotechnology.

Today, the Institute carries out research in the field of synthesis of nuclear medicine technologies and nanotechnology for biomedicine. New instruments are being developed for the diagnosis and treatment of dangerous diseases, including radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine. New high-performance methods of computer nanomedicine are being created. One of the breakthrough promising areas of PhysBio research is nanotheranostics – a combination of diagnostics and therapy in nanometric scale.

Unique educational programs have been developed for the training of personnel who will have the necessary knowledge and competencies to work in these areas. They have the flexibility to new scientific achievements and are introduced into the educational process.

Advanced researches are carried out on the basis of modern research laboratories, including three international, as well as joint with major Russian research centers labs. PhysBio of MEPhI has 10 Departments (including the Department on the basis of academic institutions of the Lebedev Pysical Institute, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Kurchatov Institute).

Currently, PhysBio implements 31 educational program, 6 undergraduate degree programs: 16 master's, 3 specialist degrees and 6 postgraduate programs. The programmes cover contemporary issues of biophotonics, nanobioengineering, medical physics, nuclear medicine, computer medicine, general medicine (medical care), biology, pharmaceutical chemistry and psychology. Among the teachers are the world's leading scientists known for their developments in these areas.

It should be noted that all programs are developed in the interests of employers, which implies the active involvement of students in research and real projects, internships in leading scientific medical centers, as well as guaranteed employment of graduates.

"Bioengineering, biotechnology are very interesting, promising and at the same time responsible area of knowledge that can solve many important problems of humanity," I.N. Zavestovskaya summed up her speech and invited students after the official part to take a tour in the scientific laboratory of the Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine.

Further, the responsible secretary of the admission commission V.I. Skrytniy familiarized students with the rules of admission for 2018. He spoke about such important topics for high school students as the minimum exam points, admission control figures, entrance exams, features of benefits, the main stages of the admission campaign.

Then representatives of the Institute answered numerous questions of future applicants and their parents. Representatives of departments and laboratories gladly told about the educational programs and demonstrated what you can learn in the Institute.

In addition, the students were invited to complete a quest "Identify who lives in the river", a workshop "Synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles" and practice on the mannequin for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and bandaging.

Reviews of future applicants who visited the PhysBio Open Day:

Ilya Stepanov, 10^th grade: "This is my first time in MEPhI, and I liked the speech of the PhysBio director. I learned that there is a direction "Medical physics". This is something new. Maybe I'll entol to this Department."

Tamara Zanegina, 11^th grade: "I study at the Lyceum 1511 at MEPhI and want to study in this University. I am interested in medicine, while I am well versed in physics and mathematics. It seems to me that biophysics is quite a promising direction."

Alexey Grunin, 10^th grade: "I am attracted by the opportunity to study at the military department, as well as international internships. Therefore, I consider MEPhI as the main University for education.”