Died one of the creators of the basics of genome decoding Eugene Sverdlov
Academician Evgeny Sverdlov, one of the creators of the basics of genome decoding, died on September 28 at the age of 87. The farewell ceremony will be held on October 2 in the House of Scientists of the NRC “Kurchatov Institute”.
Academician Evgeny Sverdlov, one of the creators of the basics of genome decoding, died on September 28 at the age of 87. The farewell ceremony will be held on October 2 in the House of Scientists of the NRC “Kurchatov Institute”. This was reported by the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry named after M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov RAS.
Eugene Sverdlov was born in 1938 in Dnepropetrovsk. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1961 and continued his scientific career first in the field of radiochemistry, and then moved to bioorganic chemistry and molecular biology. From 1988 to 2006, he headed the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and then headed the center of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”.
The work of Evgeny Sverdlov in the field of DNA and RNA became the foundation for modern technologies for decoding the genome of humans and other organisms. In addition, under his leadership, work was carried out on genetic engineering, and new methods of treating cancer were developed.
