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News
July 31, 2020
Scientists of Ukraine’s Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics Attend American Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting
This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science took place virtually, allowing me and my colleagues at...
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July 23, 2020
Ukrainian Scientists Participate in BIO 2020 Digital – the Largest Annual International Biotech Convention
BIO2020 Digital: June 8-12, 2020 This year's BIO 2020 convention hosted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization was slated to be...
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July 17, 2020
Travel Grant Recipient Yana Sindarovska Participates in 2020 World Congress on In Vitro Biology
Earlier this summer I participated in the virtual 2020 World Congress on In Vitro Biology organized by The Society for...
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July 7, 2020
Taras Shevchenko University Student Ihor Stepanov Participates in Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips Virtual Meeting
Three words describe the C3B-20 (Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips) Virtual Scientific Meeting: modernity, universality, liberality. The first session was the...
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June 12, 2020
Publication Grant Winner Oleksandr Zinenko’s Article Published in Toxins Journal
Towards a new snakebite treatment in Ukraine Until recently I was not involved in medical studies or drug development. But...
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May 8, 2020
Travel Grant Recipient Serhii Pankivskyi Participates in CSHL Virtual Genome Organization & Nuclear Function Meeting
Genome Organization & Nuclear Function, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The Virtual Genome Organization & Nuclear Function meeting (April 28 –...
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April 30, 2020
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2020 Ukrainian Student Biotechnology and Bioengineering Competition
For the second year in a row, the Lviv Polytechnic University Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology Department of Technology of Biologically Active...
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April 28, 2020
Travel Grant Recipient Alex Nyporko Attends DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer Conference in Ventura, CA
Thanks to a grant from the US-Ukraine Foundation Biotech Initiative I obtained a unique possibility to participate in the Gordon...
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April 17, 2020
Travel Grant Winner Lidiia Babenko Attends United European Gastroenterology Week in Barcelona
"For me as a young scientist, the experience of communicating with scientists whose articles I read and the opportunity to...
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March 25, 2020
BIOsens – A Ukrainian Startup Making Food Safer
BIOsens Inc., founded in 2016, is a Ukrainian-based biotechnology start-up, which develops hardware and software solutions for analysis of food...
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Spotlight
November 9, 2020
Valentyn Frechka: The Ukrainian Student Transforming Fallen Leaves Into Paper
Photo: Facebook - Valentyn Frechka Several years ago, Valentyn Frechka, then a high school student and member of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was wandering around the forest with his grandfather when he had a eureka moment -- if paper is made from trees, and leaves come from trees and have a high cellulose content, why can’t paper be made from leaves? He started experimenting with this idea in his school laboratory and went on to present his research at student competitions in Ukraine, Tunisia, Kenya, Serbia, South Korea and the US. He also represented Ukraine at the...
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Programs
Awards for Emerging Biotech Leaders
In November 2018 the US-Ukraine Foundation honored 24 Emerging Biotech Leaders at an awards ceremony in Kyiv.
Equipment & Supplies Sourcing Assistance
Ukrainian laboratories lack the modern equipment to take their research to the next level - read about their needs.
Trade Shows and Exhibits
The US-Ukraine Foundation Biotech Initiative was at the BIO International Convention in Philadelphia this June.
Travel Grants
We provide travel support, on a competitive basis, to Ukrainian researchers.
