Pharma cluster to be created in the Tomsk SEZ

The working group of the Russian Government Commission for High Technologies and Innovations recommended subsidizing from the federal budget 13 innovation clusters in Russia, among them a cluster in Tomsk Region.

The development program for the innovation territorial cluster "Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equipment of Tomsk Region" was developed jointly by the Region Administration, the regional Center for Cluster Development, Tomsk researchers and industry people. Over 5 years 2.5bn rubles from the federal budget will be spent on the implementation of the program. An engineering center for the development of drugs and medical equipment on the basis of the association "Tomsk Consortium of Research and Educational Organizations" will be created in the Tomsk SEZ. The federal money will also be spent on laboratory process equipment for the development of commercial production.

The experts believe that the engineering center will expedite commercialization of Tomsk inventions. There is a plan to increase the output of cluster products fourfold by 2020.

The program will be implemented by more than 30 leading industrial and innovative enterprises and research and educational organizations such as Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Siberian State Medical University, Scientific and Research Institute of Pharmacology, Virion, Pharmstandard-Tomskkhimpharm, Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science.

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