Anton BuzdinAnton Buzdin is professor and head of laboratories at Sechenov First Moscow Medical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. He was elected as the chair of Biostatistics and ioinformatics subgroup, Pathobiology Group of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). Professor Buzdin is cofounder and chief scientific officer of Oncobox, which is a translational oncology company. He has authored more than 170 scientific papers and patent applications, and has worked as chief executive of several biotechnological and biomedical companies in Russia, Hong Kong and in the United States. He has also chaired two clinical trials of transcriptomics-based diagnostic tools in oncology.
Professor Buzdin’s team pioneered bioinformatic quantitative analysis of molecular pathways using gene expression data and developed specialized algorithms and software packages to personalize prescription of targeted immunotherapy and chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients that were clinically validated and commercialized. Read More Read Less