Michael Ugrumov graduated from the University Medical School (Moscow), earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and holds a Professorship at the University Medical School (Russia). He is a member of the RAS, the European Academy of Science and Arts, and the French National Academy of Pharmacy, and has been a visiting Professor at Tokushima University Medical School (Japan), SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, NY, USA), University P. et M. Curie (Paris, France), and the University Medical School of Ulm (Germany). He was awarded the Prize of the American Society of Experimental Biologists, the Order of Merit of France, and the Orbeli Prize and Sechenov Prize from the RAS.