ITMO University

Welcome to ITMO, one of Russia’s leading STEM universities and a global talent hub for educators and researchers. The world’s only 7-time #ICPC champion!

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ITMO introduces Russia’s first portable MRI 🧲

The machine uses a weak magnetic field and requires no separate equipment room, cooling system, or high-energy supply, making medical scans more convenient for patients with limited mobility.

Read more: https://t.co/TFJcGfiETw

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New beginnings at ITMO 🛰

ITMO and Geoscan have launched a youth construction bureau for UAS and satellite engineers, where students will be trained in AI for autonomous navigation and data processing.

Learn more: https://t.co/UgAlAqqbb3

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Our scientists have developed a new liver failure treatment in rats 🐁

Privolzhsky Research Medical University and ITMO have jointly devised an efficient approach for treating liver pathologies using nanoparticles and loaded microRNA-200a.

Learn more: https://t.co/1qH5RXYsKO

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A new drug delivery system that targets melanoma cells has been developed by scientists at ITMO and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 🧫

The system may be used for regional chemotherapy or as a post-surgery wound bandage.

Learn more: https://t.co/ARc7h68stX

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Smarter documents, smarter AI 🤖

ITMO researchers’ new tool DocuMentor analyzes text and PDF files with 98% accuracy using VLM. The software can be integrated into AI assistants and corporate in-house search systems.

Learn more: https://t.co/O6bVTi6lVj

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Smarter recommendations, faster ⚡

ITMO, Sberbank, AIRI, and Innopolis researchers have found a way to transfer knowledge from LLMs to lightweight systems and boost their accuracy. The results were presented at ECIR 2026.

Read more: https://t.co/NF1EZ4DeP5

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Can a scientist survive a solo mission like in the movie? 🚀 (5/5)

Unlikely. Astronauts undergo years of intense training and are connected to a team on Earth. But sci-fi isn’t about perfect accuracy, it’s about imagination, inspiration, and making science feel exciting.

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What’s real science and what’s sci-fi in Project Hail Mary? 👾 (1/5)

We spoke with ITMO physicist Stanislav Baturin about space research, alien microbes, and whether a human could realistically handle a solo mission.

A #thread 🧵

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What if we actually found life beyond Earth? 👽 (4/5)

It would be a historic discovery! But scientifically, the first question would be whether this is truly independent extraterrestrial life or “contamination” from Earth.

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Our course is the winner 🏆

ITMO University’s online AI course for university lecturers, developed jointly with Alfa-Bank, was named the best at the Data Fusion Awards 2026 in Moscow.

Learn more: https://t.co/x0mksthy0h

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ITMO scientists have created Russia’s first 3D map of bitter and umami flavors, to be used by “electronic tongues” in food production and restaurant industry. Their work was published by @RoySocChem.

Learn more: https://t.co/hhRicF8gKQ

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ITMO researchers used lasers to produce polarization-sensitive silver nanostructures, which could help identify new therapeutic molecules and advance drug discovery 💊

The associated study was published in @acsnano.

Read more: https://t.co/O9aZDAMpUz

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Breakthrough in cancer therapy 🧬

A modeling study at ITMO finds that common cancer treatment irinotecan targets protein A2B1, linked to several cancers, opening the door to more precise treatments with fewer side effects.

Read more: https://t.co/y8oySBvmKO

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ITMO and South HUB host Russia’s first hackathon for top IT managers 💻

Chosen by a jury from Sberbank, https://t.co/k9D8ImrjKQ, X5 Tech & Yandex, the winners will now prep their projects for real-world deployment.

Learn more: https://t.co/nZMpeG2LxL

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🎉 Happy 126th Birthday, ITMO!

126 years of research, innovation, and empowering students to lead, create, and transform the future.

Here’s to many more breakthroughs ahead 🚀

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ITMO physicists have found a way to control light in photonic waveguides using laser pulses, 1000x faster and fully optical ⚡

The breakthrough could power ultra-fast optical chips for AI. The results were published in @AppliedPhysLett.

Read more: https://t.co/08XmWhUTMX

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ITMO researchers have created CoScientist, an AI system that automates the full R&D cycle in computational chemistry and medicine and accelerates every research stage, from literature review to experimental data assessment.

Learn more: https://t.co/Ijzs2vcvYv

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What if an MRI took just minutes instead of half an hour? 🤔

ITMO students, along with Genotek scientists, have created an AI tool that performs knee MRI scans in 5-10 minutes by reconstructing missing image data!

Read more: https://t.co/SCnL4Lnq4g