Dr. Andrei V. Gudkov, Ph.D., D.Sci, is a Scientific Co-Founder of Cleveland Biolabs, Inc. and has also been its Chief Scientific Officer since June 2003. Dr. Gudkov serves as Chief Scientific Officer and Founder at Everon Biosciences, Inc. He co-founded Mega Biotech & Electronics Co., Ltd., and serves as its Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Gudkov serves as Senior Vice President of Basic Science at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He has over 25 years of experience in biomedical research. Prior to 1990, he worked with The National Cancer Research Center in Moscow (USSR), where he led a broad research program focused on virology and cancer drug resistance. In 1990, he re-established his lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he became a tenured faculty Member in the Department of Molecular Genetics. In 1999, he defined p53 as a major determinant of cancer treatment side effects and suggested this protein as a target for therapeutic suppression. In 2001, Dr. Gudkov moved his laboratory to the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology and Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University. He served as a Director of Cleveland Biolabs, Inc. since June 2003. He serves as a Director of Panacela Labs, Inc., Mega Biotech & Electronics Co., Ltd., Russian Pharmaceutical Company Incuron, LLC and Taiwan Indigena Botanica Co., Ltd. He serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board at CytoLogic, Inc. He served as Senior Vice President of Research Programming and Development of Roswell Park Cancer Institute since May 2007. In Cleveland, he has continued developing his gene and drug discovery programs, extending them to new cancer areas and drug targets. Many aspects of Dr. Gudkov's work involved collaboration with several industrial partners, including Quark Biotech, PPD Discovery, Clontech and ChemBridge Corp. Dr. Gudkov's work with Quark Biotech resulted in the establishment of a unique long-term relationship between academic and industrial entities that generated millions of dollars of research support for the academic lab and new technologies and drug targets for the industry. He has more than 100 publications, including research articles and analytical reviews in top-level journals. He is an invited speaker at numerous international congresses. Dr. Gudkov holds 21 issued and 7 pending patents. Dr. Gudkov serves as Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology at CCF, Principal Investigator on a series of NIH-funded programs, Author of over one hundred research papers and Inventor on 21 issued U.S. patents in the cancer area, including the patent for the first p53 inhibitor, pifithrin-alpha.