Nazarbayev University

Nazarbayev University is an autonomous public research university founded in 2010, with a broad, internationally oriented academic profile and more than 400 researchers and faculty. Its Astana campus is anchored by an 18,400-square-meter Interdisciplinary Research Building with 120 laboratories, major instrumentation, and shared core facilities that support external collaborators and industry users. Centralized research administration, international partnerships, industry-academia programs, and an innovation ecosystem support contract research, startup development, intellectual-property protection, licensing, and commercialization. Research is supported by competitive internal grants, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education and other national ministries, plus international funders such as the European Commission, World Bank, NIH, NASA, and NSF. Research administration provides pre- and post-award support for externally funded collaboration and technology translation.