Academic degree: Dr.Sci.(Bio.)

Academic rank: Academician, RANS

Position: Head of the Department of Poxvirus Genomic Research

Affiliation: Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology

Details: Sergei N. SHCHELKUNOV, Dr. Sci. (Biology), Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Chief Researcher, VECTOR State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (Koltsovo, Novosibirsk oblast). Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) on variola and monkeypox virus research; Deputy Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Orthopoxvirus Diagnosis and Repository for Variola Virus Strains and DNA. Awarded with the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology (2005). Author and coauthor of more than 270 research papers, 7 monographs, a university textbook Genetic Engineering, and 17 patents