Victoria I. Bunik has a long‐standing interest in medical applications of basic biochemical research that she has developed as a visiting professor at the Burke Medical Research Institute (NY, USA). She continues this translational study, leading an interdisciplinary research group at the Belozersky Institute of Physicochemical Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). Victoria I. Bunik is also a professor at the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and at Sechenov Medical University (Moscow, Russia). She has introduced specific inhibitors of key mitochondrial multi‐enzyme complexes of 2-oxo acid dehydrogenases to in situ and in vivo research. Her pioneering studies on the pharmacological regulation of these complexes in neuronal and animal systems decipher the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration to translate this understanding into medical practice.