Newswise — After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian scientists were left to scramble for scarce funding, equipment, and supplies. Russia has gone through many changes since then, but the fundamental problems remain: funding, lack of scientific infrastructure, bureaucracy, little scientific collaboration with the West, and the ongoing brain drain.
Maria Garber, chief of the Laboratory for Structural Studies of the Translational Apparatus at the Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, has been an HHMI international research scholar since the Institute's first competition for scientists in the former Soviet Union in 1995. Mikhail Gelfand is chief of laboratory at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow. In 2004, he received one of three prizes awarded to "Best Scientist (Doctors of Science, Biology)" from the Russian Academy of Sciences
Garber and Gelfand can give reporters personal accounts of the state of science and scientific research in Russia today.
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