A lecture by a biophysicist was held at KBSU

April 12 at Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh.M. Berbekov received a lecture from Anton Popov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Theranostics and Nuclear Medicine at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the topic “Nanobiotechnologies for radiotherapy of tumors.”

Let us note that Anton Popov graduated with honors from KBSU with a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2009.

Anton Leonidovich is the winner of many awards and prizes, including the Commemorative Medal “300 years of M.V. Lomonosov» for amazing achievements in science, and is also a laureate of famous awards and grants from the President of the Russian Federation and the Governor of the Moscow Region.

At a lecture at KBSU, the biophysicist spoke about the development of new multifunctional materials for biomedical purposes carried out in his laboratory and the technologies for their use in hadron therapy of radioresistant tumors, prevention and treatment of complications of radiation therapy.

“Theranostics is an innovative field of medicine, the essence of which is to create drugs and treatments that are used simultaneously for early diagnosis of a disease, for treatment and to monitor the patient’s response.
Today, theranostics increasingly use nanoparticles that act as carriers, for example, of a drug or radioisotope for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. At the same time, nanoparticles act directly on specific biological pathways in the patient’s body, while avoiding damage to healthy tissue,”

– the scientist shared.

Among the fundamental problems that Anton Popov’s team is solving is the study of the mechanisms of formation of functional nanomaterials with specified properties for their biomedical use; modeling the interaction of radiation with nanotheranostics, studying the molecular mechanisms of interaction of radiation with biological objects, studying the molecular mechanisms of the biological activity of functional nanomaterials under irradiation conditions.

The meeting of the young biophysicist with teachers and students of the Institute of Chemistry and Biology, the Medical Academy and the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of KBSU took place on the initiative of the Department of Biology, Geoecology and Molecular Genetic Foundations of Living Systems of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Biology of KBSU.