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New beginnings at ITMO 🛰 ITMO and Geoscan have launched a youth construction bureau for UAS and satellite engineers, where students will be trained in AI for autonomous navigation and data processing. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/education/c…

Our scientists have developed a new liver failure treatment in rats 🐁 Privolzhsky Research Medical University and ITMO have jointly devised an efficient approach for treating liver pathologies using nanoparticles and loaded microRNA-200a. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/new…

A new drug delivery system that targets melanoma cells has been developed by scientists at ITMO and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 🧫 The system may be used for regional chemotherapy or as a post-surgery wound bandage. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/lif…

Smarter documents, smarter AI 🤖 ITMO researchers’ new tool DocuMentor analyzes text and PDF files with 98% accuracy using VLM. The software can be integrated into AI assistants and corporate in-house search systems. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/it/…

Smarter recommendations, faster ⚡ ITMO, Sberbank, AIRI, and Innopolis researchers have found a way to transfer knowledge from LLMs to lightweight systems and boost their accuracy. The results were presented at ECIR 2026. Read more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/it/…

Can a scientist survive a solo mission like in the movie? 🚀 (5/5) Unlikely. Astronauts undergo years of intense training and are connected to a team on Earth. But sci-fi isn’t about perfect accuracy, it’s about imagination, inspiration, and making science feel exciting.

What if we actually found life beyond Earth? 👽 (4/5) It would be a historic discovery! But scientifically, the first question would be whether this is truly independent extraterrestrial life or “contamination” from Earth.

What’s real science and what’s sci-fi in Project Hail Mary? 👾 (1/5) We spoke with ITMO physicist Stanislav Baturin about space research, alien microbes, and whether a human could realistically handle a solo mission. A #thread 🧵

Our course is the winner 🏆 ITMO University’s online AI course for university lecturers, developed jointly with Alfa-Bank, was named the best at the Data Fusion Awards 2026 in Moscow. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/achievement…

ITMO scientists have created Russia’s first 3D map of bitter and umami flavors, to be used by “electronic tongues” in food production and restaurant industry. Their work was published by @RoySocChem. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/lif…

ITMO researchers used lasers to produce polarization-sensitive silver nanostructures, which could help identify new therapeutic molecules and advance drug discovery 💊 The associated study was published in @acsnano. Read more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/pho…

Breakthrough in cancer therapy 🧬 A modeling study at ITMO finds that common cancer treatment irinotecan targets protein A2B1, linked to several cancers, opening the door to more precise treatments with fewer side effects. Read more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/lif…

ITMO and South HUB host Russia’s first hackathon for top IT managers 💻 Chosen by a jury from Sberbank, Cloud.ru, X5 Tech & Yandex, the winners will now prep their projects for real-world deployment. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/education/c…

🎉 Happy 126th Birthday, ITMO! 126 years of research, innovation, and empowering students to lead, create, and transform the future. Here’s to many more breakthroughs ahead 🚀

ITMO physicists have found a way to control light in photonic waveguides using laser pulses, 1000x faster and fully optical ⚡ The breakthrough could power ultra-fast optical chips for AI. The results were published in @AppliedPhysLett. Read more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/pho…

ITMO researchers have created CoScientist, an AI system that automates the full R&D cycle in computational chemistry and medicine and accelerates every research stage, from literature review to experimental data assessment. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/it/…

What if an MRI took just minutes instead of half an hour? 🤔 ITMO students, along with Genotek scientists, have created an AI tool that performs knee MRI scans in 5-10 minutes by reconstructing missing image data! Read more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/lif…

New breakthrough in photonics 💫 ITMO physicists showed that twisted electrons can be accelerated to extremely high speeds without losing their quantum state, improving electron/ion microscopy and helping to study nuclear forces. Learn more: news.itmo.ru/en/science/pho…