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Appendix E.2: International Science and Technology Center
Pages 209-216

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From page 209...
... incorporate previously isolated experts into the international scientific community. During a period of economic unrest in Russia during the 1990s, tens of thousands of scientists found themselves without adequate incomes to support their families, making them potentially attractive targets for nefarious parties with hostile intentions that were in search of technological expertise.
From page 210...
... The ISTC developed expertise and provided services broadly in technology databases, project management, commercialization of products, competency building, and communication and travel support. The ISTC partner program enabled private companies, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations to fund directly R&D projects undertaken by Russian scientists and institutions.
From page 211...
... search for new approaches to develop innovative functional healthy foods on the base of Lactic acid-producing bacteria isolated in Russia, which can be used for prevention and complex therapy of gastrointestinal, urogenital, cardiological, and oncological diseases. Science and Technology in the Prevention of Biological Threats -- Has the objective of developing new techniques and technologies for the rapid detection of a defined list of highly dangerous microorganisms; focusing on the Group of Eight priority of protecting food supplies; and assisting in the development of adequate emergency planning, reporting, first response, and epidemiological analysis.
From page 212...
... Petersburg Methodology and Software for Risk-Based Land Use Planning and Decision Support Hand-Held Express Detector of Drug Design and Technological Institute of Instrument Traces Based on a Method of Ion Mobility Engineering for Geophysics and Ecology, Increment Spectrometry Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk Development of a Research Center for First Moscow State Medical University/Research Tuberculosis Clinical Trials Through the Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, Moscow Conduct of a Study of a Modified Treatment Regimen for WHO Category 1 Patients Phosphorescence Multianalyte State Research Institute of Biological InstrumentMicroanalysis of Dried Blood Spots as a Making, Moscow Basis of Seroepidemiological Monitoring of Zoonotic Infections Transmitted by Ixodid Ticks Monitoring of Influenza A Viruses in Wild State Research Center of Virology and Birds, Poultry and Pigs in the Novosibirsk Biotechnology Vector, Novosibirsk Region
From page 213...
... of Projects Department of Defense/DTRA 36,494,286 28 Department of Health & Human Services 30,733,322 59 Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research 23,267,328 50 Service, Beltsville, MD Department of State – FSU Bio Industry Initiative, 12,488,287 20 Washington, DC Department of Energy / Initiatives for Proliferation 8,782,500 13 Prevention Program, Washington, DC Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 6,803,295 24 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 3,708,932 13 Arlington, VA TOTAL 122,277,950 207
From page 214...
... Allocated Funds, Total Allocated Funds Technical Area Projects US$ by All ISTC Parties Agriculture 7 1,431,111.00 1,703,421.00 Biotechnology 73 16,523,441.67 21,060,173.31 Medicine 66 14,766,130.50 17,542,812.22 TOTAL Biotech 146 32,720,683.17 40,306,406.53 Environment 127 31,123,378.00 39,199,622.97 Chemistry 50 13,094,371.34 15,703,197.20 Fission Reactors 65 15,160,771.34 20,935,428.00 Fusion 24 5,070,282.00 8,058,282.00 Information and 27 6,640,754.00 8,666,443.00 Communications Instrumentation 46 10,028,848.58 11,740,661.58 Manufacturing Technology 17 3,795,409.00 4,196,609.00 Materials 61 13,008,816.00 17,297,198.94 Non-Nuclear Energy 23 4,987,150.00 7,946,116.22 Other 4 455,950.00 455,950.00 Other Basic Sciences 1 300,000.00 300,000.00 Physics 104 22,789,612.00 26,270,617.00 Space, Aircraft, and Surface 22 5,522,976.67 7,798,670.00 Transportation Total 717 164,699,002.10 208,875,202.44
From page 215...
... Total Agri+ Bio+Med+ Env = 39% $35,000,000 $30,000,000 E 2-2 $25,000,000 $20,000,000 $15,000,000 $10,000,000 $5,000,000 $0 VECTOR SRCAMB VNIIPH IBCh IIE RCTHRB IHPBP RCMDT IIV FCAH FIGURE E.2-3  Major recipients of ISTC project funds in biology (Vector -- State Research Center of Virology, Novosibirsk, SRCAMB -- State Research Center of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Shemyakin's Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Institute of Immunological 2-3 E Engineering, Moscow reg., RCTHRB -- Research Center of Toxicology and Hygienic Regulation of Biopreparations Serpukhov, Moscow region, IHPBP -- Institute of Highly Pure Biopreparations, St. Petersburg, RCMDT -- Research Center of Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy, Moscow, IIV -- Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow, FCAH -- Federal Center for Animal Health, Vladimir)


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