From Fracture Prediction to Wound Healing: New Patents and Know-How Take Centre Stage at BelSU's Refreshed Science Exhibition

A university clinic that predicts fractures before they happen. A cellular injection device for emergencies. A wound dressing born from interdisciplinary teamwork. These are not distant possibilities but working innovations, and they all sit under one roof at Belgorod National Research University’s (BelSU) newly refreshed exhibition of scientific achievements.

Lyudmila Kamyshnikova, Chief Physician of the BelSU Polyclinic, took the audience through the institution’s transformation into a fully-fledged University Clinic – a development that signals its growing role in both patient care and clinical training. She also presented a fracture risk prediction method developed at the BelSU Institute of Medicine, explaining how such tools can shift healthcare towards earlier intervention.

The exhibition featured several devices that have recently been protected as know-how by the BelSU Regional Know-How Depository. Vladislav Dubrova, Director of the BelSU College of Medicine, and faculty organiser Anna Chepurina demonstrated a cellular injection device designed for emergency and urgent care and a head immobilisation tool for CT scanning. Both innovations illustrate the university’s focus on practical, frontline solutions.

Natalia Avtina, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, outlined the story behind a unique wound dressing for tissue healing – the product of interdisciplinary teamwork spanning her own department, the BUNKIR Research Centre at the BelSU Institute of Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Biology, and the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology at the BelSU Institute of Medicine.

Daria Kostina, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, introduced an innovative method for treating linear wounds, adding another example of research that moves from bench to bedside.

The event closed on a hands-on note. Students from the BelSU Medical College shared essential first-aid skills in a masterclass, underlining the university’s commitment to equipping the next generation with both knowledge and practical competence.

The exhibition offered a vivid cross-section of a university where invention is embedded in everyday academic life – and where students are invited to be part of the process from the very beginning.