Starting September this year, the newly launched Biophysics and Medical Engineering degree program is to be part of the training offered at the Faculty of Physics and Technology, NCFU.

Medical Biophysics is a complex area focusing on the arrangement of energy and substances at the biological level, and employs elaborate equipment that can have a serious effect on living beings.

Valentina Volkova (Dean, Faculty of Physics and Technology) noted that the purpose of the program is to raise Master’s degree holders capable of being effective in areas related to medical physics and nuclear medicine, as well as X-ray diagnostics and treatment. These unique skills will help such experts enjoy demand in the labor market while promoting national medicine at the very advanced level.

The degree program in question is to be launched in partnership with the Siberian Federal University, while the contents of the training has been developed jointly with practicing experts of the Stavropol Regional Clinical Oncology Center, the Regional Clinical Hospital and the Medical Clinic of Stavropol, LLC, whereas one of the major aims pursued within the new program is to prepare biophysicists to be further employed at the Nuclear Medicine Center, to be established in the region.

Applicants seeking to join the program are welcome to submit their papers prior to July 30, 2022.