Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSc

Professor of Oncology, SVP and Garman Family Chair of Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

Dr. Gudkov was graduated from Moscow State University and obtained his academic degrees (PhD in Experimental Oncology and Doctor of Sciences in Molecular Biology) in former Soviet Union. In 1990 joined Department of Genetics at University of Illinois at Chicago (US). Between 2001-2007 he led Department of Molecular Genetics at Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio). Since 2007, he is at his current position at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. His interests involve anti-cancer and anti-aging research, radiation biology and mechanisms of inflammation. He authored >250 research articles and founded several biotech companies that develop anticancer and anti-aging drugs based on his inventions.