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BioUkraine is an initiative of the US-Ukraine Foundation whose goal is to help advance the state of biotech in Ukraine
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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 often 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.
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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Spotlights
July 8, 2019
Dariya Loseva, co-founder of MyHelix: How to Start a Science Startup in Ukraine
Interview by Bionity.Space Lots of people think starting a biology startup in Ukraine is a mission impossible. But we disagree....
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May 10, 2019
Scientists in Ivano-Frankivsk tackling age-related diseases and deforestation
Dr. Lushchak has been recognized by the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s Biotech Initiative (BI) for leadership in his field. We sat down...
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April 26, 2019
The Future of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
It seems that almost everyone is familiar with at least one or two myths and legends about the Chornobyl Exclusion...
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April 19, 2019
Young Ukrainian scientist invents a cheaper vitamin D test
Anna Mazanova of the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine has created a...
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April 9, 2019
Kombucha: The Microbial Astronaut
In 2014-2016, a Ukrainian ecotype of kombucha spent more than two years in space as part of the European Space...
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April 2, 2019
Sumy scientist invents environmentally friendly packaging
Dmytro Bidiuk, an inventor from the Ukrainian city of Sumy, created packaging for food products that does not harm the...
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September 14, 2018
Can Bioinformatics be a Gateway for a Biotech Surge in Ukraine?
As part of its Biotechnology Initiative, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) will be supporting the single-cell RNABIO & organoids conference and workshops to be held at Unit.City innovation...
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Spotlight
August 27, 2020
The Ukrainian SpaceBox Start-Up: A Conveyor for Biological Research in Space
Ukrainian researchers are creating an accessible platform for biological experiments in space that can accelerate basic and applied cosmo-biological research and bring us closer to colonizing the Moon and Mars. We already know a lot about how living organisms are adapted and how ecosystems function. But what happens if they are transplanted beyond their home planet where they evolved over billions of years and placed into orbit around the earth - or on the Moon or Mars? In those alien environments there’s no gravity - or one that differs from earth’s - there’s a different substrate, a different light-cycle with...
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