Educational project

26.2.2021

Teachers of the Faculty of Natural Sciences have joined an educational project aimed at raising awareness of biosafety and biosecurity issues in Ukraine.

The partnership project “Education and Dissemination of Knowledge in Ukraine”, which is carried out by the A. V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, together with the Ukrainian Science and Technology Center (STCU) and the biological security service of the British Ministry of Defense, is aimed at disseminating knowledge on biosafety, biosecurity, bioethics and the possible double use of the results of these studies.

In accordance with the program of the project, on February 24, 2021, a webinar seminar was held for teachers and scientists, which was joined by teachers of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

The seminar was opened by the Chairman of the Commission on Biosafety and Biological Protection under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine Serhii Komissarenko, who presented a report on the modern problems of biosafety, biosecurity, bioethics, and the possible double use of scientific research results.

The next speaker was Anatolii Demchenko, Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Mykola Gogol State University of Nizhyn, who spoke about possible ways to overcome the pandemic, which he is trying to find together with his American partners.

During the webinar seminar, the most lively discussion was caused by such questions as “Methodology for the search for compounds that have antiviral action (including in relation to the SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses) according to FDA standards”; “Criteria for the activity of the antiviral action of chemical compounds: EC50, CC50 (or IC 50), Si”; “The results of the antiviral action of the compounds against the coronaviruses SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and some particularly dangerous viruses: Yellow Fever, Tacaribe, H1N1, H3N2 and others”; “Prospects for the creation of a real antiviral agent for the treatment of the disease.”

Teachers of the Faculty of Natural Sciences sincerely thank the organizers for the interesting seminar and look forward to further cooperation.

According to the Faculty of Natural Sciences