Dentists of KBSU and MSMSU will cooperate for the purpose of import substitution
April 21, 2022 acting Rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov Yuri Altudov and Rector of the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Yanushevich initialed an agreement on cooperation within the framework of the program of strategic academic leadership «Priority-2030». In September 2021, in Nalchik, the parties signed a framework agreement on scientific and practical cooperation, when members of the delegation of a Moscow university visited the Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Institute of Chemistry and Biology, the Institute of Architecture, Construction and design, got acquainted with the achievements of the dental school, as well as a unique center of excellence with a full cycle — from material synthesis to 3D products. Using modern tools for analyzing the structure and measuring the properties of materials, scientists from a regional university (medical workers, chemists, physicists, biologists, mathematicians) participate in the development of new polymers with desired properties. The results of research are used in medicine, aircraft construction, and the automotive industry. In particular, KBSU has developed methods for guided repair in children with congenital malformations of the maxillofacial region and the use of biocompatible polymer implants. Commenting on the event, Y. Altudov said:
“The task of creating breakthrough technologies is set for universities within the framework of the federal program “Priority 2030”. I am convinced that under the conditions of sanctions, it is necessary to cooperate quickly, without bureaucratic delays, between specialized universities with highly qualified narrow-profile personnel (including managers), and classical universities (including regional ones), where various areas of science and research are represented. This will give a synergistic effect. Today in Moscow an agreement was reached that in May the rector of the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Yanushevich will arrive in Nalchik with a team of specialists involved in the projects of the Priority 2030 program, and this agreement will be signed in a solemn atmosphere. Within its framework, it is planned to carry out the digital transformation of well-known and well-established medical methods in medical practice, the development of new rehabilitation technologies, as well as the creation of innovative polymer structural materials with desired properties that have no analogues in the Russian Federation for the needs of dentistry and reconstructive medicine.”
The use of Big Data technologies for the analysis of increasingly complex arrays of medical data opens up new opportunities in the field of healthcare and will help increase the competitiveness of Russian medicine. This area of research will become one of the main ones in the cooperation between the two universities. An additional impetus to these studies should be given by the potential of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, created at the end of 2022 at KBSU. In addition, it is planned to create and implement digital technologies for teaching clinical medicine (interdisciplinary aspects of diseases, maxillofacial reconstruction and dentistry). Director of the Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery of the KBSU Magomet Mustafayev believes that this document will open up new opportunities for research for the purpose of import substitution: “If earlier we thought that we would systematically engage in development based on the needs of practical medicine, including dentistry, for which new methods of diagnostics and treatment, new materials, new equipment and equipment are needed, now we are faced with the task of developing highly effective structural materials as quickly as possible and putting them into practice.”