The forum was opened Elena Maslenkova, Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of the Russian Ministry of Health, Head of the Youth Center for Science and Technology at Pirogov University. She stressed the importance of scientists working together in the field of preventive medicine and a healthy lifestyle. 

Dmitry Korostin, head of the sequencing group at the Center for High-Precision Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine at Pirogov University, spoke at the panel discussion "Medical Technologies of the Future: where innovations are born." The expert shared his experience in organizing the work of interdisciplinary teams and talked about how to choose the right motivation tools that will help synchronize the overall vision of the future product. 

A pitch session of the Preventmed'25 International Competition for Young Scientists was also held within the framework of the forum, the finalist of which was a third-year student at the Institute of Biomedicine (MBF) of Pirogov University. Irina Korchagina. She presented a case study on the development of a complex of biomarkers and a biotechnical algorithm for assessing the biological age of the brain, prevention and treatment of cognitive aging.

As a result of the forum, the finalists received not only prizes and gifts, but also invaluable experience and feedback from experts who will help them turn bold ideas into breakthrough projects for the medicine of the future!