Belavsky Alexander Vadimovich graduated from the Department of Molecular Biology with honors from the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (1975). The topic of research was the development and application of new methods for cloning cDNA for the analysis of gene expression and function. Awarded in 2013 for the cycle of works "Nucleoprotein organization of the genome" Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Development and the Laboratory of Chromatin Structure and Function.