Background
Alexey Egorov was born on February 19, 1943 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Alexey Egorov was born on February 19, 1943 in Moscow, Russian Federation.
After graduating from Moscow high school in 1960, Alexey Mikhailovich Egorov entered the Department of Biophysics of the Faculty of Biology and soil studies of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. After graduation, he began to work in the inter-department laboratory of bioorganic chemistry named after L. Belozersky, where in 1971 Alexey Mikhailovich defended his thesis on the subject of the quaternary structure of human myeloma immunoglobulins.
Alexey Mikhailovich Egorov worked at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he continued to study the structure of proteins and began developing highly sensitive methods of immunochemical analysis of human and animal leukemias.
Since 1973, after the transition to the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov, A. Egorov organized the problem laboratory of the State Committee for Science and Technology of Engineering Enzymology, which he manages to the present day.
In 1998-2002, Alexey Mikhailovich worked as the general director of the State Scientific Center of Antibiotics (SSCA), where under his supervision studies on the search for new antibiotics, study of immunomodulators, mechanisms of microorganism resistance to antibiotics were revived, the industrial biotechnological base for the production of asparaginase and genetically engineered insulin was restored.
Alexey Mikhailovich Egorov is a full Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (2002).