BelSU Engineering school – the second in Russia

The competition took place under the auspices of "Education Academy". In the final “The Lichens” project by pupils of BelSU Engineering school Veronika Ozerova and Yaroslav Chermoshansky has taken the second place. The awards ceremony of winners was held on January 25 in Moscow, in the Historical park "Russia — My History" at VDNKh.

Children under the leadership of the the senior research associate of research laboratory of organic synthesis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Candidate of Chemistry Boris Paponov have worked technology and methodology of allocation of a parietin from natural raw materials (lichen). Parietin has pronounced anticarcinogenic property. In 2015 according to the British scientific magazine "Nature" parietin has been recognized as the most perspective anticarcinogenic substance of natural origin.