Annual Report

Announcements

New book on ISTC aerospace projects
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ISTC is organizing an information meeting on March 2 for participants of newly funded projects from the last Governing Board. For more information, contact Natalya Sukhanova at: sukhanova@istc.ru

**Deadline for Project Proposals
ISTC informs its beneficiary institutes and other organisations that the deadline for submission of project proposals for the next funding session is 1 April 2010. However, it is advised to send proposals as early as possible before the the deadline.

- ISTC issues a position paper on Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Sites
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- ISTC issues a position paper on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
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- ISTC issues a position paper on ISTC Funding in the Field of Medical Research
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-ISTC Takes Active Part Against Flu Pandemics

The current emergence of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is of growing concern for public health authorities in many countries. Unlike other methods requiring special equipment and highly skilled personnel, this test, developed within Project #2748, can be run at any sanitary station, including in rural areas.

The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) is an intergovernmental organization connecting scientists from Russia, Georgia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with their peers and research organizations in Canada, EU, Japan, Republic of Korea, Norway and the United States.

ISTC facilitates international science projects and assists the global scientific and business community to source and engage with Russian and CIS institutes that develop or possess an excellence of scientific know-how.

In a letter published by the newspaper “Rossiiskaya Gazeta”, Viktor Glukhikh claims that there is a key role for the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) to play in the transformation of the Russian economy from a raw material one to an innovation based one.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated: ‘As we look back at the cooperation the ISTC has fostered over the past fifteen years, I commend the Center, and those who have supported it, for its accomplishments’.

The Board members held their 50th meeting in Moscow on 9 December 2009

On the 15 year anniversary of ISTC, the Governing Board signed a statement recognizing ISTC's passed work and future challenges.

On November 6, the new Ambassador of the Netherlands to Russia, Ron Keller, visited the ISTC with his Senior Advisor for Science, Education and Cultural Affairs, Pavel Kouzmine, to discuss collaboration opportunities for Dutch companies and other organizations in the field of science and technology.

ISTC is co sponsoring, in collaboration with the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the joint conference

The event brought together leading Japanese scientists with their Russian counterparts from Siberia and the Far East regions.

Tailings are radioactive toxic waste, formed as a result of uranium enrichment. Tailings have negative impacts on health, agriculture and ecology in the affected areas.

The annual Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) conference was held on 21-24 September in Irkutsk

Opening Words by Adriaan van der Meer, Executive Director of ISTC, Moscow 12 October 2009