A little something from physics for medicine (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 23 April 2014)

A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), entitled “A little something from physics for medicine”, was held on 23 April 2014 at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.

The agenda posted on the website of the Physical Sciences Division, RAS, www.gpad.ac.ru, included the following reports:

(1) Rumyantsev S A (D Rogachev Federal Research and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology, Moscow) “Translational medicine as a basis of progress in hematology/oncology”;

(2) Akulinichev S V (Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, Moscow) “Promising nuclear medicine research at the INR, RAS”;

(3) Nikitin P P (Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) “Biosensorics: new possibilities provided by marker-free optical methods and magnetic nanoparticles for medical diagnostics”;

(4) Alimpiev S S, Nikiforov S M, Grechnikov A A (Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow) “New approaches in laser mass-spectrometry of organic objects”.

The publication of the article based on the oral report No. 2 is presented below.