OREANDA-NEWS. The First Russian-Swiss Innovation Day was held in Geneva. Alexey Repik, Chairman of the Board "R-Pharm", Co-Chairman of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), took part in the event as moderator of the “Biotech, demography, medical technologies and pharmaceutics: serving a human” section.

The event was dedicated to the development of long-term business and scientific cooperation between Russian and Swiss innovative and research communities. The First Russian-Swiss Innovation Day was attended by Swiss PMs - Geraldine Savary and Jean-Francois Steyaert; Russian PMs - Vladimir Gutenev, Alexander Abalakov, Mikhail Slipenchuk and Mikhail Degtyarev; Pascal Dangle, Executive VP, Ferring Pharmaceuticals; and Patrick Aebischer, President, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

The event organized by Russian Consulate in Lausanne, University of Geneve and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne was also supported by Russian State Duma (Lower parliament house), the MGIMO university, Russian Industrial Union, Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and others.