The Faculty was established at MSU to produce world class experts in biotechnology. The purpose of the faculty is to train experts in area of biotechnology who will have skills to do research and to obtain knowledge about the exploitation of biotechnological objects: microorganisms, animal and plant cell cultures, bioactive substances from engineering under laboratory conditions to large scale production technologies. Faculty educational programme unites fundamental and practical technical training in a joint venture of Moscow State University with Pushchino Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences.