Yury Chernoff Prof.

Biography

Yury Chernoff is a geneticist and molecular biologist, studying protein aggregation, yeast models for amyloids and prions, and protein-based inheritance. He has discovered the prion induction by protein overproduction and the crucial role of chaperones in prion propagation. Dr. Chernoff has graduated from St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) State University, Russia, performed postdoctoral research at Okayama University, Japan, and University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, and joined Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 1995 (currently a full Professor). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Prion, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).