Dr. Nicolai Bovin

Nicolai V. Bovin is currently working as a Professor at the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He received a PhD in chemistry  in 1982. and  a DSc in chemistry  in 1993. He was given the role of Professor in 2001. Nicolai Bovin has been head of the Laboratory of Carbohydrates since 1989; from 2016 to 2021 he was guest professor of Molecular Engineering at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; since 2015 he has held the position of CSO at Kode Biotech, Auckland. His research interests mainly focus on synthesis of oligosaccharides and neoglycoconjugates; supramolecular chemistry; glycobiology, glycan/protein interaction; naturally occurring antibodies; glycoarrays, dendritic cells, B1 lymphocytes; as well as influenza therapy and diagnostics, transfusion and transplantation, cancer diagnostics and treatment, cell microvesicles. Professor Bovin has supervised 20 PhD works, he is the author of >500 per-reviewed articles, his h-index is ~60.