On 5-8 July 2024, Guangzhou, China, hosted the International Scientific Conference on the Development of Medicine and Pharmaceuticals in China and Russia «New Opportunities. New platform. A New Beginning.» The event was organised by the Council of the Russian-Chinese Association of Medical Universities (RCAMU).

Alexander Krivtsov, a lecturer of Dagestan State Medical University, Associate Professor of Normal Physiology Department, took part in the section «Information Technologies in Healthcare» with the report «Use of Information Technologies to Raise Health Awareness among Students».

This is the tenth anniversary meeting of the association’s participants. It brought together rectors and representatives of about 20 Russian and 45 Chinese medical universities. The speakers presented many innovative projects:

— application of artificial intelligence in cancer diagnostics;

— innovative carriers for medicines;

— use of neural networks for remote screening of heart diseases;

— remote monitoring of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;

— restoration of damaged nerves using organic optoelectronic implants.

Today, the association unites more than 100 leading universities in Russia and China. Over 10 years, the members of the association have held more than 300 joint scientific and practical events involving 25,000 students and professors from the two countries.

Rector of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Glybochko, spoke at the conference with a report that currently RCAMU is a large-scale collaboration aimed at discovering the multilevel connection between genes, environment and phenotypes.

Following the conference, the rectors of the leading medical universities of Russia and China adopted a communiqué in which all the experience of interaction was proposed to be transformed into new instruments of the common scientific and educational policy of the two countries — joint thematic committees and professional societies, the Russian-Chinese centre of educational programmes and grant funds of RCAMU.