Professional Activities:

Faculty Appointments:

2003 – 2014	Assistant Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
2014 – pres.	Associate Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
2014 – pres.	Adjunct Ass. Professor, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Honors And Awards:

1988	Young Investigator Award, Chemistry Department, Moscow University, Moscow
1989	Young Investigator Award, Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow     University, Moscow, Russia
1990	Research Award, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1991-1995	Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
1995	Travel Award for Young Investigators, American Association for Cancer Research
1996	Elected to Active Membership of American Association for Cancer Research
1997	Travel Award for Young Investigators, American Association for Cancer Research
2014	Re-appointment with Distinction to the Graduate Faculty at the Roswell Park Graduate Program

Professional Organizations

• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• Metastasis Research Society
• American Society for Cell Biology
• Tumor Microenvironment Society

Adhoc Reviewer:

• Biochemistry
• BMC Biology
• Breast Cancer Research
• Cancer Research
• Clinical Cancer Research
• FEBS Letters
• Experimental Cell Research
• Molecular Cancer Research
• Molecular Biology of the Cell
• International Journal of Cancer
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Cell Biology
• Oncogene

Committees – Institute:

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at RPCI

Teaching:

2003 – Present	Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, RPCI, BIR613;
2005 – 2012	Oncology for Scientists, RPN 530, Introduction to Cell Biology
2010	Cellular and Molecular Biology, BIR501
2007 – Present	Regulatory Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Cells, RPCI, BIR572; BIR571