Experience has been exchanged within the framework of the VOGAS project

The purpose of the visit of foreign colleagues was shareing of experience and approbation of methods in the process of obtaining volatile organic markers and stomach biomaterials, equipment assembly and use issues, as well as discussion of current issues of the VOGAS project.

LU KPMI staff - researcher Dr. Viktor Velik and senior laboratory technician Marina Alentieva, as well as Ukrainian colleagues MD Veronika Patsko and MD Irina Razumeiko, were trained in the installation and use of volatile organic marker equipment by Dr. Pawel Mochalski.
Also, the laboratory assistant Marina Alenteva together with Ukrainian colleagues conducted a questionnaire of the patient before the operation.
Dr. Pawel Mochalski and Reinis Vangravs, a research assistant at the LU KPMI, discussed the issues of culturing Helicobacter pylori.
LU KPMI Leading Researcher Dr.med. Sergey Isayev showed Ukrainian colleagues how to take biomaterial for research, as well as told about the pre-cancerous state of the stomach and the histopathology of the tumor.

During the visit gastroenterologist, gastrointestinal endoscopy specialist Dr.med. Ilze Kikuste demonstrated the gastric juice collection and gastric tissue biopsy procedures used in the study to foreign guests, as well as questions about entering patient and examination data into the Biobank electronic system.

At the end of the visit, a tour of the Academic Center of the University of Latvia was organized for the guests, and the LU KPMI laboratories and Biobank premises in the Nature House were shown.

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824986 .