Biomedical research center
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Jean Monnet Chair 2022-2025 "Circular solutions in biomedicine"
Project coordinator: leading research fellow Sergiy Kyrylenko
Team members:
- Prof. Maskym Pogorielov, Head of the Bimedical Research Center
- Prof. Alexander Pogrebnjak, Head of Department of Nanoelectronics and Surface Modification
- Doc. Oksana Gaponova, Head of Department of Applied Material Science and Technology of Constructional Materials
- Doc. Viktoriia Korniienko, Biomedical Research Center
- Dr. Yevheniia Husak, Bimedical Research Center
- Dr. Bernhard B. Singer, Institute of Anatomy, University Hospital Essen, Germany
- Dr. Jan Brbsky, Center for Translational Medicine, International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic.
Short description
Public healthcare system in Ukraine is responsible for over 10% of total annual waste generation. Together with biomedical scientific institutions it has become one of the major wastemakers. Nevertheless, healthcare professionals still concentrate solely on safety, efficiency and convenience of medical technologies rather than on recycling of wastes. The medical leftovers do require special treatments before disposal. However, up to now, almost no efforts are paid to reuse and recycle the healthcare wastes. The mainstream approach in healthcare industries still features the simple scheme: resources→production→usage→waste.
Clearly, this approach falls into an old time linear economy concept. This way of doing healthcare will end soon. And we now have to decide either it will end together with exhaustion of recourses, accumulation of wastes and severe consequences from the changing climate. Or, alternatively, we will sit down and think about how to introduce European principles of circular economy also to the public healthcare system.
The goal of this Chair is to introduce European fundamental doctrine of circular economy to young and experienced biomedical professionals. Circular solutions in biomedicine are more difficult to introduce in comparison to e.g. food and transport industries for obvious reasons.
We hypothesize that the most adequate methodology to fulfill the goals of the Chair is to set up new interdisciplinary teaching courses where the same problems of circularity in biomedicine will be highlighted from two sides: from the medical, and from the materials science point of view. The Chair will also have research program and broad dissemination activities.
This way the Chair will deliver critical knowledge about European principles of circular economy to biomedical scientists, materials researchers and healthcare professionals. The Chair will also motivate interdisciplinary cohort of experts to push the healthcare system in Ukraine towards European circular standards.