The Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (CONEM) has launched an initiative to highlight Ukrainian biomedical research and to coordinate related international scientific communications in correspondence with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). The initiative will publish concise, factual “Ukrainian Research Spotlight” summaries of newly published papers with Ukrainian researchers, with consistent institutional attribution and emphasis on Ukrainian scientific leadership where applicable.

CONEM has maintained an ongoing scholarly collaboration with researchers in Ukraine for several years. A PubMed search performed on February 2, 2026, returned 51 indexed papers. All of these papers were published in collaboration with Geir Bjørklund, founder and president of CONEM.

In an email dated December 15, 2025, Dr. Anatolii Myronchuk, Head of the International Relations Department at NASU, wrote that CONEM’s active collaboration with scientists in pharmacy-related disciplines, including pharmacology and pharmacognosy, as well as related biomedical fields in Ukraine, was gratifying. He added that the information would be useful to the Academy’s relevant scientific departments and research institutes.