Dear friends! Dear colleagues!

Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine (IPCC) is the biggest well-known research center of cryobiology in Ukraine. IPCC is based in the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city of Ukraine, just 30 km away from the Russian-Ukrainian border. Kharkiv became almost empty in a couple of days after the beginning of military aggression of Russia against Ukraine.

Those who had to stay in the city tried to continue their daily routine and maintain life-sustaining activity in the city and IPCC in particular (both remotely and in-person). However, days of long-term shelling and bombardments of city infrastructure by Russian troops resulted in frequent power outages and voltage fluctuations, which in turn caused equipment failures, reagent deterioration and hinder the research progress of the Institute.

Moreover, the ongoing war with its impact on life, ecology and economy of Ukraine has a huge impact on providing an adequate allocation of funding as well as supporting science and researchers in the near future.

To address the challenges and to manage the consequences of Russia’s invasion which hit hard science and its funding, in particular at the IPCC, the “Ukraine and Kharkiv Researchers Support” Charitable Fund (UKRSF) (ukrsf.org.ua) was established by a group of the IPCC employees.

The main areas of the fund’s activity are

1) to support the staff forced to stay in Kharkiv through the wartime to perform their projects and ongoing duties, and

2) to contribute to the preservation and development of scientific potential of the Institute during the post-war period.

We will greatly appreciate it if you consider any type of support as for the missions of our fund.