Dr. Yury A. Skorik is the Head of the Laboratory of Natural Polymers at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Head of the Analytical Chemistry Department at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia. He obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, A.M. Gorky Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (currently Ural Federal University), in 1995 and his Ph.D. in 1998 in Physical Chemistry from the same department and university. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (2001-2004) and at the Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2004-2005). Previously, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, A.M. Gorky Urals State University (1998-2000); as a Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2005-2007); and as an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, St. Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University, St. Petersburg, Russia (2007-2016). His current research interests involve the chemical modification and properties of polysaccharides; biopolymer drug and gene delivery systems—polymer–drug conjugates, micro- and nanoparticles, and polyplexes; polysaccharide biomaterials for tissue engineering; and regenerative medicine—films, nonwovens, sponges, and gels.