Vladimir M. Uversky PhD, DSc

Dr. Vladimir N. Uversky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Leningrad State University in Russia in 1986. He then completed his Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics (field of study -Biophysics) at the Moscow Institute of Technical Physics in 1991 and the Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.) degree in Physics and Mathematics (field of study - Biophysics) at the Institute Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine in the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. Dr. Uversky is the author or co-author of more than 550 peer-reviewed publications (cited more than 28,000 times), 65 book chapters, the editor of 20 scientific books and 5 book series, and more than 15 journals. His major research interests are related to protein structure, folding, misfolding and non-folding.