In 2025, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research selected proposals for innovations in research and development with high potential in industry, scientific instrumentation, and the social sphere. By the decision of the JINR Directorate, five applications received financial support. The young winners’ teams have already started implementing their R&D ideas.

More than 30 applications were submitted for the competition, which is planned to take place regularly, at least every two years. The Project Selection Committee, which consisted of representatives of the Association of Young Scientists and Specialists and the Innovations and Intellectual Property Department, conducted their preliminary analysis. Based on the results, the experts selected 17 projects to be presented in person. These applications were reviewed by leading JINR researchers and specialists. The winners were determined by the decision of the Institute’s Director Grigory Trubnikov, based on the results of two in-person rounds of project defence.

Summing up the results of the selection with the members of the expert committee and laboratory leadership, Grigory Trubnikov noted the participants’ engagement, the quality of the submitted projects, and the intensity of competition. He stressed that the initiative to select the best innovations had a dynamic start, and the key to its successful development should be the steady and effective work of the winning teams.

The following projects will receive the Institute’s support:

• “Creation of a line of high voltage power supplies and voltage switches for experimental facilities”, supervised by Dmitry Ponkin (VBLHEP). The successful implementation of this R&D project will not only improve the technical equipment at the facilities of both JINR and its partners, but will also allow occupying the related market niche.
• “Development of deep tissue oxygenation measurement systems using time-domain diffuse optics (TD-DO)”, supervised by Alexandr Selyunin (DLNP). The project team unites DLNP JINR physicists with medical scientists and chemists from Moscow State University. As part of the R&D project, it is planned to create equipment aimed at solving the problems of rapid diagnosis of circulatory disorders, including strokes, along with monitoring oxygen levels in the brain during surgeries.
“Development of micro-SPECT systems for precision imaging in preclinical biological experiments”, supervised by Vladislav Rozhkov (DLNP). The results of this R&D project may be utilised in applied biomedical studies, the development of radiopharmaceuticals, testing of new diagnostic and therapeutic methods, and in the problems of fundamental radiation biophysics.
• “Testing of neurotoxicity and assessment of contrast agents, nanoparticles, and other compounds’ accumulation in animal models in TaaS (Testing as a Service) format”, supervised by Inga Zinicovscaia (FLNP). The successful implementation of the project will allow the Institute to conduct a wide range of pharmacological and pilot toxicological studies of new medicines and contrast agents being developed in the JINR Member States.
• “Multifunctional preparative system of tangential filtration”, supervised by Ilya Vinogradov (FLNR Centre of Applied Physics). As part of the R&D project, tangential filtration devices in reusable and single-use designs will be developed. These are in demand in a number of laboratory and medical filtration tasks, along with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

We wish the winners success in implementing their plans!