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Ivanitskii, Genrikh R., D. PM. S. Born in 1936 in Moscow. Russian biophysicist.
Corresponding member of Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the
Academy since 1976. He graduated from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation
Institute in 1960. In 1954, he began working at the Institute of Biophysics of the
AN SSSR. From 1976 to August 1988, he was Director of the Pushchino
Biological Physics Institute which does research on the physical and chemical
properties of nucleic acids, radiobiology, and the automation of bioprocesses. He is
a recipient--with others--of the Lenin Prize in 1980 for discovery of a new category
of autowave processes and research of their role in disturbing the stability of
vulnerable distribution systems. His works have included the development of
biophysical methods of research using computer technology and coherent optics
and applying them to cytology. He helped to perfect a scanning optical microscope.
In 1970, he organized a center for machine analysis of cell structures. (GSE 30, p.
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Karava'ko, (Karavako) G. I., D. Bio. S. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department of the Academy in 1993. He graduated from
Moscow State University in 1959 from the biological l-soil faculty with specialties
in plant physiology and microbiology. He finished his postgraduate course at INMI
of the Academy in 1962 and immediately became a member of the Institute staff. He
now heads the Microbial Transformation of Minerals Laboratory of the
Microbiology Institute. Scientists in this laboratory search for, isolate and study the
microorganisms active in the destruction of sulfide and non-sulfide minerals, study
the mechanism, conditions and kinetics of the microbial destruction of minerals,
and develop the microbiological bases for the bio-technological leaching of metals
from ores and concentrates and for the biosorption of ions of metals from solutions.
Khomutov, Radii M., D. Chem S. Born in 1929. Corresponding member of Physical
and Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since 1981, and Deputy Director
of the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Academy. He heads the Chemistry of
Enzymatic Regulation Laboratory of the institute. Professor Khomutov graduated
from the Moscow State University Chemistry Department in 1952, joined the
institute as a senior research scientist in 1959. In 1955, he defended his thesis on
the interaction of salts and oxide of mercury with viniesters and ethers, and in
1966, he defended his dissertation on the chemistry and mechanism of biological
activity of antibiotic cycloserine. His current interests are in the chemistry of
physiologically active compounds and enzymology. He received the State Prize in
1984--for his work--with others--on "The Chemical Principles of Biological
Catalysis." (1964-1982.)
Kiselev, Lev L., D. Biochem. S., Corresponding member of Physical and Chemical
Biology Department of the Academy in 1993. He is Head of the Molecular Bases of
Ontogenesis Laboratory of the Molecular Biology Institute in Moscow. He
graduated from Moscow State University in 1959 and defended his thesis on the
secondary structure of soluble ribonucleic acids in 1964, and in 1972, he defended
his dissertation on regulation problems on the specific interaction between transfer
RNA and aminacyl-tRNA sythetase. He became a laboratory assistant in the
institute in 1959. His current research interests center on protein biosynthesis, the
human genome, nucleic acid-protein interactions, oncogenes and anti-oncogenes.
Kiselev, Nikolai A., D. Bio. S. Born in 1928. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since 1979.
Kulaev, Igor S., D. Bio. S., Born in 1930. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since December 1987. In 1990, he
was Head of Regulation of Biochemical Processes Laboratory of the Biochemistry
and Physiology of Microorganisms Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in
Pushchino, which studies the molecular bases of biogenesis and the mechanisms
of translocation of proteins, enzymes, polyenzyme complexes and other
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