Today President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has met with management of ”Eidos” Company.The meeting was held at the RT Government House with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – RT Minister of Informatization and Communications Nickolay Nikiforov, Aide to RT President Anatoly Krasnov, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Irek Faizullin, Chairman of “Ak Bars” Bank Board Robert Musin and others.
General Director of LLC “Eidos” Ramil Gainutdinov briefly told about the company and its innovative activity at the Russian market. The Company is engaged in production of equipment and training simulators and it has been presented at the market for three years.
LLC “Eidos” is a resident of Technopark “Idea” from the date of the Company creation. Technopark “Idea” provided a team of young IT-developers with free production area at the project startup phase and then with concessional office premises in Business Incubator. Since 2011, the Company has become a resident of Technopolis “Himgrad” where localizes its production.
Four main activities of LLC “Eidos” are as follows: production of auto simulators (training of civil and military drivers, including on heavy trucks “KAMAZ”), production of simulators for the needs of the Emergency Ministry (simulation of emergency situations, exercising of behavior in emergency situations), production of specialized robots, medical simulators. The last area was opened in 2011. As of today, the project “Eidos - medicine” is approved by the “Skolkovo” expert board and has become its resident. Medical simulators make it possible to conduct practice operations in the selective surgery which will allow to avoid a significant number of medical errors.
During the meeting, General Director of LLC “Eidos” Ramil Gainutdinov advanced an initiative of implementing the project “Medical and Biological Technopark” in Tatarstan. It is expected that such organizations as Educational center of high medical technologies (http://www.kazanmedcenter.com), foreign and domestic medical companies, innovative companies will be potential residents of the technopark. An incubator for investment projects, aconference hall, a hotel for specialists, and representative offices of medical universities will also be located at the area of 20 thousand m².
Main idea of creating such a Medical and Biological Technopark is further development of medicine, substitution of foreign medicines for domestic ones, improvement of domestic medicine in general.
We are searching for a reliable partner for implementation of the investment project, Ramil Gainutdinov said. The Covidien Company (equipment for laparoscopy, endoscopy, resuscitation and anaesthetic measures, HQ in USA) is ready to become a partner, he noted.
RT President Rustam Minnikhanov said that the Republic is ready to consider the project more carefully and render necessary support. This is indeed very interesting idea, he said, today the Republic pays a great attention to the development of advanced information technologies and medicine as well. Regional high-tech medical centers arefully functional in the Republic, and health care system will be developed further.
Rustam Minnikhanov entrusted RT Minister of Informatization and Communications Nickolay Nikiforov and Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Irek Faizullin to study the project in detail and offer options for localization of the project “Medical and Biological Technopark” on the territory of Tatarstan. According to the RT President, the project can get approval and financial support of the federal government (under the public private partnership).