The conference was supported by RAS's executive committee, the department of nanotechnologies and information technologies of RAS, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian national committee for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and International Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CIMER) at the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
Elena Pavlyukova, a senior researcher at the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics by RAS, scientific secretary of the Russian national committee for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), reminded the participants of the conference about the potential of regenerative medicine. She also noted the contribution of the founder and director of the International Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CIMER) at Tor Vergata University of Rome Paolo Di Nardo to creating similar centres in different countries and giving opportunities to young scientists to participate in international projects in this field.
The conference participants discussed modern methods of medical diagnostics and correction of people's health condition, new developments in the field of ultrasound diagnostics, quasi-static electromagnetic tomography for early disease detection, mathematical models and numerical modelling methods for tackling biomedical problems, targeted drug delivery to particular cells of the body, digital technologies in robotic-assisted surgery, use of powerful electromagnetic pulses for disinfection of biologically contaminated objects in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Russian scientists and their foreign counterparts shared with each other the latest achievements in biomedical electronics development and their application in early detection of clinical pathologies as well as in the successful treatment of COVID-19.
Yuriy Balega, Academician and Vice-President of RAS, laid stress on the relevance of modern technologies for biomedicine, robotic-assisted surgery, targeted drug delivery, use of powerful electromagnetic pulses for disinfection, and noted that in some cases the diagnostic assessment of a person's health condition is impossible without electronic engineering. It is also capable of helping to meet the challenges of the pandemic. The academician reminded that humanity had been facing pandemics since the first cell had appeared, that isolation had always been an effective method to conquer them. Now that the world championship "who-will-be-the-first-to-develop-a-vaccine" is over, it is necessary to move on to the vaccination itself.
Rector of the Russian New University Vladimir Zernov was one of the conference's moderators. He compared the use of vaccines with half-measures that cut off only the "tip of the tail", and drew everybody's attention to the potential of medical devices developed as a result of research by the scientific school of academician Yuriy Gulyaev in the fight against COVID-19.
Vladimir Cherepenin, a corresponding member of RAS, professor of the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, continued the story about the scientific school of academician Gulyaev, which created methods of research and diagnostics using radio-electronic devices in the Soviet era. He noted that today these methods are actively developing and outlined the tasks of biomedical radioelectronics as well as interdisciplinary approaches in it.
Many of the conference's speakers talked about the differences between radio-electronic devices and the well-known CT (computer tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). Radio-electronic devices are other information channels that provide earlier diagnostics.
