Nobel laureate in chemistry, Mr. Osamu Shimomura will work in Krasnoyarsk. Together with the scientists of SFU he will conduct researches in the sphere of Biotechnology. Results of the contest were announced on 21^st of September, 2011. The Grant Council of Government of Russian Federation has supported applications of 25 Russian universities and has determined the names of 39 world leading scientists to work in Russian universities in 2011-2013. Academic interests of Mr. Shimomura and Siberian Federal University are very close. Today, the member of Academy of Sciences, Joseph Gitelson is the research manager of Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology at Siberian Federal University and is working on “Bioluminescent technologies” project. The speciality of Japanese scientist is bioluminescent chemistry.

Mr. Shimomura will be the head of the research and will make a scientific report afterward. Siberian Federal University will create necessary conditions to conduct the research. Mr. Shimomura won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2008 because he has found and developed green fluorescent protein (together with Roger Tsien and Martin Chalfie). He has maintained a thesis in Japan, but since 1960 he lives in the United States of America. At first, he was working at Princeton University, then at the oceanologic laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.