Far East science can promise and deliver but lacks interest from domestic industry

Scientific projects in the Far East?s Primorsky must give impetus to the region?s stepped up development, the RAS vice president thinks. All it takes is investment and an interest from industry

Biotech-focused scientific projects in the Far East?s Primorsky must give impetus to the region?s stepped up development. All it takes is investment in advanced research areas and an interest from industry, said in an exchange with Russian news agency RIA PrimaMedia Academician Valentin Sergienko, the vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and chairman of RAS? Far East branch. The scientist underscored the need to develop new high-tech science-intensive production facilities with a high added value, using local scientific projects. ?Such facilities could include integrated biotechnological lines producing food and pharma items. There?s a broad scientific base for this sort of production, developed by researchers at the Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, the Institute of Marine Biology, the Institute of Biology and Soil and others...