Nicolai Bovin is the Head of the Carbohydrate Chemistry Laboratory in the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the M.M. Shemyakin and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry AS USSR. His clinical interests are Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Carbohydrate Biochemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.