Valery A Petrenko
Auburn University, USA
Biography
Valery A Petrenko is currently a Professor in Auburn University, USA. He was graduated from Moscow State University (1972), received PhD and DSc degrees from the Institute of Organic Chemistry (1976) and Moscow State University (1988) and has ranks of Senior Scientist (1984) and Professor in Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology (1992) from the Government of the USSR. He has served as a Senior Scientist (1977-1982), Laboratory Head (1982-1985), Associate Director of Research, Institute Director (1985-1989), Vice President of Research and Professor (1989-1993) in the Association “Vector” (Novosibirsk, Russia). In 1993, he has joined the faculty of University of Missouri, Columbia as a Visiting and Research Professor and in 2000 the faculty of Auburn University as Professor. He is the recipient (PI) of grants from the ARO, NIH-NCI, Calvert Research, LLC and AURIC. He is also a Member of National Academy of Inventors Chapter (2013), Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer (AURIC), National Cancer Institute (NCI) Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer (2009) and Phi Zeta Honor Society of Veterinary Medicine. His research interests include monitoring and detection of biological threats, diagnosis of infectious and cancer diseases and tumor targeting.