Putin’s daughter created a program for “doctors of the future” at Moscow State University and joined the new association of graduates of the faculty - “We Can Explain”

Vladimir Putin’s daughter Maria Vorontsova was among the co-founders of the new Alumni Association at the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine (FFM) of Moscow State University. An NGO with this name was registered on May 26 at the address of the university on the Lenin Hills. “We Can Explain” writes about this.

Among the 63 co-founders of the association, each of whom owns an equal share of participation - 1.59% - was Vorontsova, who has been heading the Medical Research and Educational Institute (MREI) of Moscow State University since the beginning of 2026. At the founding meeting at the end of April, Vorontsova was elected as a member of the association’s board, and her deputy at the INOI, Maxim Domashenko, was also there. Olga Larina, a 2004 graduate of the FFM, became the president of the association, but the dean of the faculty, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vsevolod Tkachuk, who previously headed the MNOI, was not invited to the organization. On the faculty's website, the new structure is described as a platform for supporting graduates and strengthening ties with the faculty.

At the same time, Vorontsova oversees the educational project “Leaders of the Future in Healthcare” - a joint program of the Moscow State University FFM and the Skolkovo School of Management for senior students and graduates under 27 years old, the launch of which she announced last year. The first graduation took place in May - 31 sixth-year FFM students. At the presentation of the results, Vorontsova cited statistics according to which every second young doctor leaves the profession in the first five years, estimating direct losses from this at around 25 billion rubles per year. Training for one program participant costs 500 thousand rubles per year. Some of the places are paid for by Skolkovo grants, and some are paid for by the students themselves or their sponsors.

At SPIEF 2026, Vorontsova, at a closed session, spoke about the loss of personnel after graduation from universities and presented a system for “routing” future doctors through different specialties and institutions, as well as the “Career Compass” chatbot in Telegram.

A year earlier, at the forum, she spoke about another direction of her work - research in the field of “human enhancement” using 3D bioprinting of organs. In 2025, Vorontsova received a 30 million ruble grant from the Russian Science Foundation for a laboratory studying cellular renewal and active longevity, although her H-index (5–6) was significantly lower than most other winners of that year’s competition (30–60). The laboratory is co-financed by the Evogen company, whose deputy general director Olesya Sagaidak is an old friend of Vorontsova. According to Meduza and Current Time, it was she who introduced Vorontsova to her current partner, manager Evgeny Nagorny.

Vorontsova’s main asset, JSC Nomeco, in 2025 received 231.2 million rubles in net profit with zero revenue from medical services - all income was provided by interest on the company’s bank deposits of 2.2 billion rubles. Since the end of 2023, Nagorny has headed Murmansk-Transgaz, a Novatek structure involved in the construction of a gas pipeline for the Murmansk LNG project (the company has been under US sanctions since June 2024).

The US Treasury calls Vorontsova one of Putin's daughters, who oversees government genetic research programs funded by the Kremlin for billions of dollars. Vorontsova herself has been under US sanctions since April 2022, as well as under sanctions from the EU, UK, Canada and Japan - while her partner Nagorny is not deprived of the opportunity to travel abroad.

It was previously reported that in January 2026, Vorontsova was appointed director of the Moscow State University International Scientific Research Institute, where she replaced Tkachuk, who had held the position since the establishment of the institute in 2023.