The NRC «Kurchatov Institute» is one of the world's leading scientific centers and the largest interdisciplinary national laboratory in the country. The Center concentrates the scientific, technological and human resources potential which serves for the advancement of groundbreaking fields of science and technology. The development and mastering of promising industries based on large, unique research and technological infrastructure and complexes of megascience class. A significant part of Russia's scientific complex is concentrated under the auspices of the NRC «Kurchatov Institute». The Center carries out research and development in a wide range of areas of modern science: from nuclear energy, information technology, modern materials science and elementary particle physics to high-tech medicine, genetics and nature-like technologies. Since its foundation, the Kurchatov Institute has been using an interdisciplinary approach aimed at the full cycle: from fundamental research to final technologies. The NRC «Kurchatov Institute» is the head scientific organization of several federal scientific and technical development programs.