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Organization “Vektor.” He serves on the scientific council for the government’s
program on “Human Genomes”, “New Methods of Bioengineering”, and is
member of the Council on the physico-chemical problems of biology and
biotechnology. and of the priority authority group on “The Science of Life and
Biotechnology.” He received the State Prize in 1985.
Skulachev, Vladimir P. Born in 1935 in Moscow. Russian biochemist. Corresponding
member of the Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since
1974; academician in 1993. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957,
and joined the staff of the university in 1960. Head of the Department of Bio-
Energetics of the interdepartmental laboratory of bio-organic chemistry from 1965
to 1973, and in 1973, he became Head of that laboratory. His works are in the
mechanics of biological oxidation. Recipient of the State Prize, 1975. Lenin
Komsomol Prize in Science & Technology, 1967. The A. N. Bakh Prize, 1972. He
is presently serving on the Bureau governing body of the Physical and Chemical
Biology Department of the Academy. (GSE 23, p. 514.)
Spirin, Aleksandr S., D. Bio S. Born in 1931 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
Russian biochemist. Academician of Physical and Chemical Biology Department of
the RAS since 1970. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1954, where
he studied under A. N. Belozerskii. In 1962, he was Head of a laboratory at the A.
N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry of the AN SSSR. Since 1967, he has been
Director of the Pushchino Protein Research Institute that was established in 1967 as
one of four institutes comprising the Science Research Center at Pushchino. It
conducts research on protein structure and the biosynthesis of polypeptide chains.
Since 1974, Head of the Protein Biosynthesis Laboratory of the Protein Research
Institute. His works are in the biochemistry of nucleic acids and the biosynthesis of
proteins. Lenin Prize, 1976. (GSE 24, p. 426.)
Tarchevskii, Igor A., D. Bio S. Born in 1931. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department of the RAS since 1981, and academician since
December 1987. Since 1976, he has been Director of the Biology Institute at
Kazan' , that is subordinate to the academy's Kazan' affiliate. Established in 1945,
the institute studies the natural resources of the Tatar Autonomous Republic.
Corresponding Members
Abelev, Garri I., D. Bio. S. Born in 1928. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department since December 1987. (LDA 89-11378.)
Bergel’son, (Bergelson) Lev D., D. Chem. S. Born in 1918. Corresponding
member of Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since 1968.
Since 1969, he has been Chief of the Lipid Chemistry Laboratory of the M. M.
Shemiakin Bio-organic Chemistry Institute in Moscow.
Boronin, Aleksandr M., D. Bio. S. Born in 1937. Corresponding member of the
Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds
Department of the Academy in 1993. Since 1979, he has headed the Extra
chromosomal Heredity of Microorganisms Department and within that he has led
research in the Plasmid Biology Laboratory. studies the proliferation, functional
significance, the classification, and the structure and evolution of Gram-negative
bacterial plasmids, mostly of fluorescent pseudomonads. Scientists under his
direction study the genetics of microbial degradation of organic compounds and the
genetics of cellulose biodegradation. They also investigate the genetics and
physiology of rhizospheric pseudomonads with the result of increasing crop yields.
Since 1988, he has been Director of the Biochemistry and Physiology of
Microorganisms Institute in Puschino, which was established in 1964 and is
subordinate to Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the Academy.
Butenko, Raisa G., D. Bio S. Born in 1920 in Belyi, Kalinin Oblast. Soviet biologist.
Corresponding member Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry of
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