Valery Dembitsky was the director of the Laboratory of Natural Products (Institute of Ecology, Togliatti) from 1989 to 1993 and lectured at Samara State University from 1989 to 1993 as an Associate Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. During 1991–1992, he had a professorship at Melbourne University (Australia), and from 1993, he started at Hebrew University (Jerusalem). From 1993 to 1996, he was a researcher at the Laboratory of Natural Products (Department of Organic Chemistry). From 1996 to 1997, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology (Lomonosov State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, Moscow) where he obtained his second doctoral degree (D.Sc.). From 2000 to 2013, he was a research professor at the Institute of Drug Research (Hebrew University), and from 2014 to 2017, he was the director of the Institute of Drug Discovery (Jerusalem). Since 2019, he has been affiliated with the Center for Technology (Lethbridge College, Canada). He has 440 papers publications with 12,922 citations and 116,997 reads (ResearchGate, 8 December 2023).