Picture of the day: digest of the main news from September 11, 2025
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#1 JSC Bryntsalov-A has started collecting commercial proposals in order to study demand and determine the selling price of 100% of the company's shares, sources in the pharmaceutical market told Vademecum. The transaction may include a land plot of 194.2 square meters, as well as a four-story industrial building with a basement in Elektrogorsk near Moscow. This enterprise is the successor to the Moscow plant Ferein of the scandalous and legendary entrepreneur Vladimir Bryntsalov and his last asset in the pharmaceutical industry. Market participants familiar with the plans of 78-year-old Bryntsalov say that he values the company at 2 billion rubles.
#2 From January 1, 2026, a point system for assessing the localization of pharmaceutical production will come into force in Russia. The new mechanism, enshrined in amendments to Government Resolution No. 719 of 2015, will make it possible to determine which drugs and substances can be considered Russian: companies will be awarded points for key technological operations in the EAEU, and upon reaching the established threshold, the products will receive the status of domestic. The decision, aimed at stimulating business, developing technologies and expanding the range of drugs, will give manufacturers the opportunity to apply for state support.
Pharmaceutical business
Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck announced a transition to a partner distribution model: it is closing commercial divisions in 27 countries, including Russia, and transferring sales to regional operators. Lundbeck's main partners will be Swixx Group, Zuellig Pharma and NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, which will take control of different regions. The restructuring will allow the company to focus resources on developing an innovative portfolio and research, while distribution will be maintained through local players. The transition will be completed by December 1, and some employees will continue to work for the new distributors.
Initiatives
The Head of the Republic of Buryatia, Aleksey Tsydenov, at a meeting with the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ekaterina Priezzheva, proposed extending the "Honest Sign" label to food additives and bringing the process to the federal level. According to him, this will not only confirm the quality of the goods produced in Buryatia, but also spread the trend to wider markets.
Medical education
In October 2025, Sechenov University will begin recruiting students for an educational program to train specialists in the field of mRNA technologies. The program, designed for 72 academic hours, will be the first of its kind in Russia. The course will be available to doctors and researchers, who the initiators promise to gain skills in applied research, clinical use of mRNA technologies, and the introduction of innovative mRNA drugs into medical practice.
Career
The Scientific Center for Mental Health (NCMH) has elected Yulia Chaika, who previously served as acting director, as its director. Her candidacy was supported by 80% of employees during the vote on June 6, 2025. In her program until 2030, Chaika aimed to strengthen the NCMH leadership in psychiatry, develop biomedical technologies, and integrate scientific results into healthcare and the social sphere. The new director has extensive scientific and management experience; her initiatives include the creation of the first Institute of Child Psychiatry in Russia.
Organization of medical care
The Moscow Department of Health has adjusted its own order on the donation of human organs and tissues. The department has supplemented the document with regulations for the organization of dynamic monitoring and drug provision for adult patients after transplantation, as well as a list of Moscow medical institutions that perform the removal, storage, transportation and (or) transplantation of human organs and tissues - bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cells. The list includes five clinics - S.P. Botkin MMNCC, Kommunarka MMCC, Hospital No. 52 MKNIC, A.S. Loginov MKNCC and Morozov DGBK. The last two medical institutions were included in the list for the first time, the rest are already listed in the specialized register.
Infrastructure
A new building will be built for the Bystrinskaya District Hospital in Kamchatka for 1.84 billion rubles allocated from the regional budget. The medical institution is currently located in a dilapidated wooden building built in 1971. The newly constructed building with an area of 2.5 thousand square meters will house a clinic for 60 visits per day, a day hospital with 10 beds and a 24-hour hospital with 20 beds for therapeutic and surgical profiles. It is also planned to create an emergency medical care department, a pathological anatomy department and a pharmacy.
New data
For the first time in the world, the number of children and adolescents with obesity has exceeded the number of those suffering from underweight, UNICEF reported. Today, one in ten children aged 5-19 lives with obesity, and one in five is overweight. The organization warns that without strict measures to limit the influence of unhealthy food and advertising, the global economic damage from obesity could exceed $4 trillion annually by 2035.
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