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MINSK, 23 March (BelTA) – Belarusian State University won a special prize, two gold and eleven silver medals, and four diplomas in a contest for the best innovative project and the best scientific development of the year, BelTA learned from the university’s press service.

The contest was held as part of the 23rd international exhibition-congress “High Technologies. Innovations. Investments” (Hi-Tech 2018) in St Petersburg on 22 March.

One of the top awards, a special prize, was given to low-sodium phyto salt “Universum”. The product was presented by the company Unitehprom BSU and the fund Science Park. Belarusian State University received an award in the nomination “Successful Promotion”.

A gold medal went to the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Problems of Belarusian State University for an ultra-black surface coating technology for components of optoelectronic devices used in aerospace industry. The N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Center of Belarus, Unitehprom BSU, and the university’s Faculty of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies got another gold medal for Ptich-M, a computerized whole-body hyperthermia system.

Unitechprom BSU and Beltechnohleb R&D Center received silver medals for an innovative technology to make vitamins and minerals for baked goods and extruded food products with high nutrition and biological value for pregnant and nursing women. Another silver prize went to the Faculty of Biology of Belarusian State University for a technology to extract casein from low-fat milk using chitosan, and for a wound healing medicine based on cyclodextrin and curcumin nano-assemblies.

Each of the 18 developments presented by Belarusian State University got an award at the contest. All in all, this year the juries gave four special prizes, 23 gold and 53 silver medals. They evaluated 125 innovative projects and developments in mechanical engineering, metallurgy, metal processing, instrumentation engineering, polyurethane foam production, robotics, nanotechnology, information and education technology, ecology, biotechnology, medicine, and other fields. The event brought together 55 companies and organizations from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Hi-Tech 2018 saw two newcomers: Russia’s mining company Alrosa and Chechen State University.