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TOMSK, Sep 20 – RIA Tomsk. Professor of Tomsk State University (TSU) Yulia Kovas participated in a meeting of scientists of
Russia with Vladimir Putin; during the meeting she suggested the president to
create national resource base for studying of development of families within decades,
it is reported on Tuesday on the website of the higher education institution.
According to the president's website, Putin met
scientists who have received megagrants on scientific research. The program of
megagrants was adopted in 2010 and calculated for 10 years. It assumes
allocation to 150 million rubles on creation of perspective scientific centers.
professor of TSU and Goldsmiths' College (London) Yulia Kovas was one of the
first in Tomsk who recieved the megagrant.
As the press service of TSU reports, at the
meeting scientists presented to Putin the letter with the offers. In
particular, Kovas together with colleagues suggested to create national
resource base for the scientists who are engaged in neuro and cognitive
researches in Russia.
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"By means of such bases it would be
possible to study, trace development of families throughout long time. For
example, in England there is a project which traces the same families,
thousands of families for 20-40 years, and it gives a huge ammount of information.
In Russia there are no such projects yet. But I think, similar resource bases
would be a source of obtaining new knowledge for many scientists", – Kovas
is quoted in the message.
Earlier it was reported that the main objective
of the program of the megagrants is to attract scientists with a world name in
the Russian higher education institutions, including the compatriots living
abroad.
Within the grant of the Government of the
Russian Federation under the direction of Kovas the laboratory of cognitive
researches and psychogenetics was created in TSU. In results of work of the
laboratory in several years the International Centre for Research in Human
Development appeared. On its base the Russian school twin register entering
into the international network of twin researches was created.