Anton Buzdin

Anton Buzdin has graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology in 1999. In January 2003, Buzdin defended his PhD thesis in Molecular Biology entitled “Experimental recovery and characterization of human-specific transposable elements”. Since 2005, Buzdin as been the head of a research laboratory at Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. In 2008, Buzdin defended Doctor of Sciences” (D.Sc.) thesis in Molecular Biology under the guidance of Prof. Eugene D. Sverdlov, also at Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. His thesis focused on bioinformatics, systems biology and new methods of processing large-scale biochemical and molecular biology datasets. At present, Buzdin supervises the Laboratory for Systems Biology at Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Medical Information Technology at Dima Rogachev Federal Research and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology. Buzdin has authored > 100 scientific papers in the international peer-reviewed journals in the field of cancer medicine and biology, 12 monographs and book chapters, and holds 15 patents. Buzdin has been awarded with the medals of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea) and of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Buzdin has also been awarded with the prestigious Korogodin and Timofeev-Ressovsky medals and prizes.