Igor Tsigelny

Igor F. Tsigelny is a leading expert in structural biology, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, and structure-based drug design. He has a Ph. D. in Physics of Polymers from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has been a postdoctoral fellow in the University of California in the laboratory of Susan S. Taylor. Dr. Tsigelny published more than 200 papers in scientific journals including the Nature and Science group of journals. He had published and edited 4 scientific books. The book “Protein Structure Prediction: Bioinformatic Approach” that he edited, has been called “The Bible of all current prediction techniques” by BioPlanet Bioinformatics Forums. He has around 15 existing and pending patents. His computational study of molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease has been included in the US Department of Energy publication “Decade of Discovery” where the best computational studies of the decade 1999-2009 have been described.