Academic rank: Professor

Affiliation: University of South Carolina

Details: Igor B. RONINSON – professor, Director of the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Program of Translational Cancer Therapeutics at the Department of Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina. A world-famous molecular biologist, the discoverer of the multiple drug resistance gene and a renowned specialist in cancer drug development, Dr. Roninson has received a number of important scientific awards, including the Award for Meritorious Achievement in Cancer Research of the American Cancer Research Association and the MERIT Award of the National Cancer Institute (USA). Author and co-author of over 170 papers and 44 patents