Kazan medics win million-ruble grants to study inflammation and omega-3 effects

According to the press service of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU), two research teams from the university are among the winners of a grant competition run by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF). The foundation's expert council approved funding for basic research by medics from the capital of Tatarstan for 2027–2028, of up to 2 million rubles per year for each project.

One project is led by Yulia Odnoshivkina, a senior lecturer in the Department of Normal Physiology. Her work is titled a comprehensive assessment of beta-adrenergic dysregulation of the atria and diaphragm in an LPS model of acute inflammation. The other project, by Oyuna Kozhevnikova, a senior researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences, examines how omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids affect gene expression of elongases and desaturases, synaptic transmission and vesicle recycling at the neuromuscular synapse, under normal conditions and in hypercholesterolemia.

Odnoshivkina's scientific supervisor is Alexey Petrov, a doctor of biological sciences at the Institute of Neurosciences of KSMU and the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the international Scopus bibliographic database, Petrov has been included in the global list of the world's most cited scientists.