The NSU student team "Restrictio" was awarded a silver medal for its participation in the main category of the SynBio Challenges competition (Shenzhen, China). They won with a biomedicine project, the category with the highest number of entries and the most intense competition. The team included Vladislava Martyushova (team captain and a Master’s student at the NSU Advanced Engineering School), Olesia Vasiutenko (NSU Institute of Medicine and Medical Technology), and Boris Kondrashov (NSU Natural Sciences Department). They were joined by students from other universities Alisa Martyushova (Sechenov University) and Vanessa Shtermer (Far Eastern Federal University). The NSU team was the only Russian group to participate in the competition’s main category.
This year, the event included 3,849 participants and 512 teams from China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia, the Netherlands, Nepal, and Brazil. The competition featured several categories. The main category included three areas: Biomedicine, Agriculture, and Bioengineering. Other Russian teams competed in the "Protein Design" and "Synthetic Cell" categories.
The NSU student team "GeneMeow", that participated remotely, won two gold medals and one silver medal across three additional categories. A team from MSU received a gold medal in the "Synthetic Cell" category and a silver medal in the "Protein Design" category, teams from Far Eastern Federal University and Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University earned gold medals in "Protein Design", and a team from Southern Federal University received a gold medal in the "Synthetic Cell" category.
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