The main purpose of the conference was to bring together leading scientists and researchers, to establish direct contacts between researchers from around the world. The conference program included consideration of a wide range of problems associated with innovative approaches belonging to the aptamers synthesis; methods for studying the properties and structure of aptamers; aptamers diagnosis; aptamers based therapy. 

The conference was attended by over a hundred leading Russian and foreign researchers from China, USA, Canada, Italy, UK and South Korea. The opening of the conference took place in the L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics. Further work was held at the Admiral Eco-Park, where researchers discussed various aspects work with aptamers - from selection, synthesis, study of properties and structure to their use in the therapy and diagnosis of various diseases.