Marat Kazanov

Biography

Marat graduated from the Applied Mathematics Department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis in Computer Science at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, ISA RAS under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Arlazarov, who is known for developing the first world chess champion computer program Kaissa. Then, he spent three years as a postdoc at the laboratory of Professor Andrei Osterman at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, participating in projects in the field of biological regulatory network reconstruction, computational drug discovery and chemoinformatics. After returning to Moscow, he worked in various bioinformatics projects under the supervision of Professor Mikhail Gelfand. He co-authored papers in high-impact journals including Lancet Onc., Cell Rep., NAR and Science. Marat’s current research interests include cancer bioinformatics, bacterial regulatory networks, protein structure and medical imaging.

Research Interest

Cancer bioinformatics – Structural bioinformatics – Computational methods for drug discovery – Biomedical imaging