“Cooperation with Russia should continue and expand”

This is the opinion of our expert, invited guest of the VIII All-Russian Congress “Photodynamic Therapy and Photodiagnostics” – Lina Bolotin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, associate professor at the University of Lorraine and the Lorraine Institute of Carcinology (France).

As part of the Second International Forum of Oncology and Radiology, we met with Lina to learn about her impressions of the discussions and organizations of the event.

– This is the second time you have come to us. What is the reason for your interest?

– Yes, this year we are already participating in this event as co-chairs of several sections, and last year we only read reports. And both times we were invited by Professor Elena Vyacheslavovna Filonenko. Our cooperation with Russia began back in 2018. It is supported by both the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Moscow, as well as the Ministry of Education and Science here in Russia.

– Tell us what about it in more detail.

– We cooperate with the laboratory of laser Biospectroscopy of the Center for Natural Science Research of the IOF named after A.M. Prokhorov, headed by Professor V. B. Loshenov. We are jointly developing spheroids – these are such tumor cells in the form of a sphere. This model very much resembles a real tumor . And we have some developments on this topic, which we are testing here in Moscow. And this visit is part of our cooperation. We also visited the French Embassy in Russia and received confirmation that we will continue to cooperate on this and other projects that we have in Russia. I would like to emphasize that the French side is very interested not only in continuing cooperation, but also in expanding its formats. For example, last year a graduate student from Moscow came to us, this year we are already waiting for two specialists.

– What are your impressions of the Forum?

– I think that the forum has become more saturated. I see new countries, topics, discussions, sections that didn’t exist in the past. For example, we have just heard a very interesting report concerning dentistry, an excellent report on navigation surgery, which uses the fluorescence method. We are very interested in this because it is part of our work in France. I would like to wish all participants and organizers fruitful work, successful cooperation and excellent results!

Press Service of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “NMIC of Radiology” of the Ministry of Health of Russia