Prof. Dr. Alexey Yu. Fedorov is the head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He is also a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science. He specializes in bioactive compounds, organic synthesis, and antitumor drugs. His research interests mainly include fine organic synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, synthesis of natural compounds and their analogs, natural tetrapyrroles and their analogs, inhibitors of protein–protein interactions, the Warburg effect, and targeted delivery. He is the author of 80 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields and his h-index is 24 (source: Scopus).