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On July 21, 2025, representatives from Peking University led by Zhang Jin, Vice President of Peking University and Chancellor of Shenzhen Graduate School, paid a visit to HSE University. The delegation included forty students, teachers, and administrators. During their visit, leaders from both universities discussed potential areas for future collaboration, and representatives from three HSE University departments held meetings with Chinese students.

The Ronald F. Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR) has been holding academic seminars for 15 years, bringing together scholars from various countries and offering early-career researchers a platform to present their work. Anna Almakaeva, Head of the Laboratory, spoke to the HSE News Service about how exchanging ideas contributes to academic work, what topics are discussed at the seminars, and the laboratory’s plans for the upcoming academic season.

On July 10–11, 2025, Moscow hosted the 10th Hope for Technology National Forum of the Rehabilitation Industry and Universal Design. The event was aimed at discussing innovative achievements in the rehabilitation industry. The MIEM Student Design Bureau and the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience presented a smart orthosis, which was developed at the request of orthopedists.

In early July, two conferences were held in which leading research fellow of the ILSIR Nikita Bolshakov took part: the 13th Conference of the European Association of Disability Researchers, dedicated this year to social transformations (13th ALTER Conference: Transformations, July 8-10, Innsbruck, Austria) and the 10th International Conference on Ethnography and Qualitative Research (10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference, July 10-12, Trento, Italy).

In the framework of world science structure mapping the HSE University Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) for the first time has identified the most relevant for Russia research and development topics using a system of intelligent analysis of big data iFORA.

In July, a team from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study, Preservation, and Development of Native Languages of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), conducted the first-ever neurolinguistic expedition to the village of Churapcha to study reading in the Yakut language using electroencephalography (EEG). For the first time, EEG data from 43 adults and behavioural data from 40 children was collected during the two-week expedition.

The staff of the Center made presentations, sharing the latest achievements in the field of neurotechnology and neuroimaging. The annual conference "Neurocampus Baikal 2025" was held on the shore of Lake Baikal from 06/29/25 - 07/04/25.

Knockdown of CD44 in colorectal cancer tumours alters the expression of microRNAs and their targets involved in epithelial–mesenchymal transition and the Notch signalling pathway, both of which are associated with tumour metastasis