Vladimir Fokin. Photo: pharmcluster.ru Valery Fokin 42. Dark brown hair, light eyes, marital status does not advertise. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, 20 years ago, graduated from the local department of chemistry, and in 1998, has already received a doctorate at the University of Southern California. After opened a laboratory in the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla (California) – one of the most renowned medical institutions in the United States.
That’s what told Business FM Director of Bio-Business Incubator MIPT Oleg Korzinov “Valery Fokin I know a long time, and we even discussed until 2012 and did some chemical projects in the field of drug development. And he’s right after for some internship program went to America, having worked in several places. And then hit the Scripps ».
Last year Fokin became a visiting professor in the department “Innovative Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology” MIPT. The scientist came there with his teacher, Nobel laureate in chemistry Barry Sharpless. He oversees the MIPT laboratory to develop innovative medicines, and Fokin became engaged in chemical direction, said Business FM Head of innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology MIPT Andrey Ivashchenko:
«For them, basic scientists, the applicability and implementation at the head of the corner. Barry then told us a joke – there are all running around, he’s a Nobel laureate, and he then said Valera’s future winner. He was among the ten most cited chemists decade. And Valera, he recently flew out of Russia, I spoke with him, he does not like the hype, because it is clear that this is not the Nobel Prize, but only a prediction, so is it calmly ».
Fokin one of the best chemists of the decade. Now he is committed to creating new molecules that may in the future be the basis of drugs, including those from different viruses and cancer.
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