Background
Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin was born September 17, 1938 in the village Valuevo, Zavitinski district, Khabarovski krai, Russian Federation
Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin was born September 17, 1938 in the village Valuevo, Zavitinski district, Khabarovski krai, Russian Federation
From 1955 to 1973 Kalinin served at Armed forces. In 1965 graduated from the Military Academy of Chemical Defense, defended a thesis for a Candidate Degree in Chemical Science.
Principal field of scientific studies – study of interconnection between structure of biologically active compounds and functions in cells. Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin founded a school ‘National Research Institute of Biological Instrumentation’ in National Research Center where his scientific approaches are successfully implemented. Kalinin was founder and the first director of this institute (1975-1980) where has been a PhD advisor for 25 years.
In 1980 Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin became the head of All-Union Industrial Association of Biopharmaceutics (1980-1983). Later he was appointed a Senior Deputy of Glavmicrobioprom of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Since 1986 he has been a deputy minister of medical and microbiological industry. In 1985 Kalinin was one of the initiators of the foundation of the interbranch scientific and technical complex Biogen which combined all the leading scientific schools of Russian Academy of Science and sectoral research institutes.
1991-2001 Yuri Tikhonovich was a chairman of the executive board and CEO of Biopreparat.
Kalinin was a head of scientific researches on the development of a producing strain of fusion protein containing human proinsulin, and on the elaboration of technology of insulin displacement from the fusion which were successfully terminated in 1999. In January 2002 production of genetically engineered human insulin on pilot plant was established.
In 1995 many brunch industries were combined with the association Rosmedprom headed by Kalinin.
Since 2001 Yuri Tikhonovich Kalinin is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Production Association Biotechnology-XXI Century, a member of the Presidium of the Russian Union of Domestic Producers (2001), a member of the Coordination Council for the Priority Direction of Living Systems Technology under the Ministry of Science of Russian Federation, the Head of the Space Biotechnology Section of the Coordinating Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Space Academy (1993).