3 Sluzhbova St., 03142, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone/fax: (044) 423 0845;
e-mail:biophys@ukr.net

The Institute of Applied Problems of Physics and Biophysics was set up in 1998 by the Resolution of NAS Presidium ¹ 49 of February25, 1998 ‘On Reorganizing SONAR R&D Centre of Biotechnical Systems into the NAS Institute of Applied Problems of Physics and Biophysics’. The SONAR Center of Biotechnical Systems was established in 1989 by a joint resolution of NAS Presidium and the USSR State Committee on Science and Technology.

Principal research areas of the Institute are:

– physics of laser systems and technologies;

– physical phenomena in biological structures.

The developments proposed for commercialization:

– a laser perforator for protecting securities;

– hydrobionic technologies of underwater searches and study of hydrosphere environment;

– technologies for emergency underwater neutralization of submerged toxic agents and decontamination of marine water areas;

– new diagnostic methods for determining iron content in human organism;

– low-temperature ESR spectrometer for determining the content of iron, including non-hemic one, in biological samples;

– a photoplethysmography system for diagnostics of cardiovascular system;

– a method to improve the efficacy of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of oncological diseases.