Yaroslav A. Andreev, is a senior researcher at the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia, M.Sc. in Biology, Specialization Bioorganic Chemistry (2002); Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (2009). Research interests and experience: search, isolation, and structural characterization of biologically active components from natural venoms and extracts, the study of the structure, mechanisms of action, and natural ligands of thermosensitive, acid-sensitive, and other neuronal channels.