Rusnano launches Nuclear Medicine Centers Network

Central Russia’s first Nuclear Medicine Centers Network has opened in the Lipetsk region. A sizable private-public partnership, the Network has the capacity to deliver y-tracers to neighboring regions, the Rusnano website announced. This $24+m effort is being pushed by PET-Technology, a portfolio company of Rusnano.  

The Y-Tracers Production Center in the local town of Yelets and the Positron-Emission Tomography Center in Lipetsk have become the first facilities to join the Network. Russia is reported to have invested an estimated $13m to build and equip the facilities. 

PET scanning is one of the most accurate diagnostic methods, enabling physicians to identify a disease at a very early stage, choose therapies, and monitor the efficacy of treatment. In case of cancer, it may save a patient’s life. 

In today’s Russia, cancer is second only to cardiovascular diseases on the national ‘killer list’ of mortality reasons.