Born: 1 August 1951, Krolevetz, Sumy Region, USSR
Married, three children.

EDUCATION:
M. Sc. in Physics (Department of Physics, Moscow State University, 1974).

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES:
Professor in Biochemistry (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 2000).
D.Sc. in Pharmacology. (National Research Center for Biologically Active Compounds, Staraya Kupavna, Moscow Region, 1995).
Ph.D. in Biophysics (Department of Biology, Moscow State University, 1981).

APPOINTMENTS:
Deputy Director (Research) in the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (IBMC, Moscow), since 1998.
Professor of Medical & Biological Faculty of Russian State Medical University, since 1996.
Head of Laboratory for Structure-Function Based Drug Design in the IBMC, since 1995.
1974-1995 National Research Center for Biologically Active Compounds (formerly - Research Institute for Biological Testing of Chemical Compounds, Staraya Kupavna, Moscow Region).

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Vice-Chairman of the Russian Section of The QSAR and Modeling Society, since 1996; Member of the American Chemical Society (Cheminformatics Division), since 2002; Vice-Editor of Biomedical Chemistry (Rus.), Editorial Board Member of Russian Chemical & Pharmaceutical Journal; Co-Chairman of the Symposium “Bioinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery” (in 1995-1998 - “Computer-Aided Drug Design”) at the annual Russian National Congresses "Man and Drugs", Moscow (1995-2003); Chairman of the Local Committee of the International Conference “Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics for Medicine” (St.-Petersburg – Moscow, June 24-30, 2002); Scientific Advisory Board Member of the European Symposium on QSAR & Modelling (Euro-QSAR’2002), Bourthmouth, UK, September 2002; Scientific Advisory Board Member of the International Symposium on Drug Discovery and Process Research, Kolhapur, India, January 2003.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Since 1996 Professor of Medical & Biological Faculty of Russian State Medical University. Special course "Bioinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery" for graduate students.
1997-2002: 8 PhD Students; 12 Graduate Students (work under my supervision).

AWARDS:
Medal “For scientific partnerships” (2001), Medal "850 years of Moscow" (1997), Gold Medal on School Graduation (1968).

PUBLICATIONS:
Co-author of more than 200 published works and 12 non-open published reports in R & D of new pharmaceuticals.