In a ceremony at the Academic Council of the University, Rector of Petrozavodsk State University Anatoly Voronin presented medals and diplomas to the winners of the 5th International Exhibition "Bioindustry", which was held at the St. Petersburg International Health Forum.

To recap, It was the second time at the exhibition that Petrozavodsk State University presented its innovative projects and developments in the field of bioindustry. All seven projects and developments the university announced for the contest of innovative biotechnological solutions became medalists.

The Gold Medal was awarded to the chief researcher of the Laboratory of new methods of physiological studies of the Institute of High Biomedical Technologies A.Meygal for the "Anti-gravity rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's by method of "dry immersion"; Director of the Institute of High Biomedical Technologies T.Volkova for her project "The new test system of differential diagnosis of cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer”, head of Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine and Hygiene of the Institute of Medicine O.Dudanova and assistant of the department I.Belavina for the "Method of early diagnosis of portal hypertension in chronic diffuse liver diseases", the head of the Department of Pharmacology I.Vinogradova for the project "Personalized multimineral biologically active additives to food for the correction of element imbalance."

Silver medals were awarded to Professor of the Department of Hospital Therapy O.Barysheva for the "A new way to verify the neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome", to senior engineer of the Laboratory of small and medium-mechanization of agriculture and fisheries A.Kuritsyn for the "ARK-5 Feeder for fish farms" and assistant professor of mechanization of agricultural production E.Tikhonov for the project "A Modular mini-farm for growing quail".

In addition, the Director of the Student Business Incubator A.Konovalov was awarded a statuette and a diploma of "Young Lions 2015" in the field of industry incubatorship and business innovative entrepreneurship in the nomination "The best student business incubator".

Dean of the Faculty of Mining and Geology V.Aminov was awarded the gold medal of the International Technical Fair (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) for the project "Study of the disintegration of solid rock in order to reduce energy consumption and production of additional products in the processing and enrichment of ore and technogenic raw materials". The project is implemented within the framework of the federal target program "Research and development on priority directions of scientific-technological complex of Russia for 2014-2020".