Sergey Olegovich Bachurin

Biography

Sergei Bachurin graduated from the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University in 1975, studied in the postgraduate course at the Department of Chemical Enzymology, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, where he defended his thesis in December 1980. In 1993 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Academic Council of this department. In 2003 he was awarded the academic title of professor. In May 2003, he was elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the specialty "Organic Chemistry". From 1981 to the present time he works at the Institute of Physiologically Active Substances of the Academy of Sciences (at first the USSR Academy of Sciences then the Russian Academy of Sciences). Since 1986 he worked as deputy director of the institute for scientific work. Since 2006, the director of the Institute of Physiologically Active Substances (IFAB) Sergei Bachurin was a visiting researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, USA (1992) and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA (1995). Areas of scientific interest are mainly related to the medical chemistry of neurodegenerative disorders, in particular, based on the search for new drugs for neurological disorders, namely for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.  

Research Interest

Organic Chemistry