Our 6th year student (Faculty of Pediatrics) Kirill Butov spoke about his impressions of an summer internship in Boston, USA. The internship was held in the hematology department of the Brigham hospital and the platelet biogenesis laboratory at Harvard Medical University.

“I was very lucky because it was an internship outside of programs or contests, - Kirill Butov specified. - I met with colleagues at the Gordon conference last year, and we have been intensively working on the study of megakaryopoiesis for a year now. We planned this trip in advance, but real progress appeared when it became necessary to conduct experiments on the same samples in parallel. The Brigham Hospital is one of the top clinics in the United States, and the platelet biogenesis laboratory at Harvard Medical University is currently the world leader in platelet research.

Most of all I liked that the laboratories where I worked, were very well and similarly equipped, up to the same configurations of TIRF microscopes. I have brought many results with which we can sit and scratch our heads in the evenings.

Kirill Butov is a member of the student research group of the academic department of histology. “I came to the group when we started studying histology. Andrgei Vladimirovich Yelchaninov (curator of the group) was the person thanks to whom I began to do science, - said Kirill Butov. - His goal is to teach how to use scientific literature, to study science from the inside, to listen about methods and so on. And the main task is to show how cool and important it is to navigate scientific topics. "