About the “Kazakhstan Society of Geneticists and Breeders” (RPA KOGiS)

Our Mission

To help shape the scientific community of the future. To be Kazakhstan’s leading center of expertise in genetics and breeding, uniting researchers and practitioners to build the scientific community of tomorrow through cutting-edge research, innovation, and addressing the country’s priority challenges in agriculture, medicine, and biodiversity conservation.

To consolidate the intellectual potential of Kazakhstan’s geneticists and breeders, support their professional growth, and actively participate in shaping the future scientific community by advancing basic and applied research, improving the quality of education, and popularizing science.

To contribute to Kazakhstan’s sustainable development through progress in genetics and breeding, forming a responsible and dynamic scientific community of the future capable of effectively applying scientific advances to ensure food security, improve public health, and preserve the country’s unique genetic heritage.

To ensure continuity between generations in Kazakhstani genetics and breeding, creating an open and integrated scientific community of the future by supporting young talent, fostering interdisciplinary links, and promoting international cooperation.

Our Vision

The Society strives to be a leader, drive science forward, and actively influence what the scientific community will look like in the future, focusing on concrete outcomes for the country.

The Society sees its role in bringing specialists together, developing them, and building a strong, educated, and recognized scientific community of the future.

The mission emphasizes science’s responsibility to society and aims to create a scientific community that will make a meaningful contribution to Kazakhstan’s long-term development.

We focus on knowledge transfer, supporting young researchers, and building a modern, collaborative scientific community that will be part of global science.

Founders

Председатель
Academician Yerlan Kenesbekovich Turuspekov

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology

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Professor Ainur Rakhmetulovna Akilzhanova

Head of the Laboratory of Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Director of the Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University

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Professor Bakhytzhan Orakbayevich Bekmanov

Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Physiology

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Aydyn Isagalievich Kydyrmanov

Head of the Laboratory of Virus Ecology, LLP “Scientific and Production Center for Microbiology and Virology”

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