Vladimir A. Gushchin was born on January 09, 1987. Received higher education at the RSAU-MTAA named after K.A. Timiryazev (Moscow, Russia) and Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) and in 2009 received a diploma in genetics. In 2013 V.A. Gushchin defended his PhD in the field of molecular virology. The dissertation research was carried out at the Department of Virology, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Moscow, Russia) and the James Hutton Institute (Dundee, the Great Britain). At the moment, Vladimir A. Gushchin is in charge of the laboratory of mechanisms of population variability of pathogenic microorganisms and the reference center for coronavirus infection of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after honorary academician N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of Russia, and also works as a senior researcher at the Department of Virology, Lomonosov Moscow State University where he works with students and graduate students. Research by V.A. Gushchin are aimed at studying the variability of pathogenic microorganisms, as well as the development of diagnostic tools, monitoring, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. V.A. Gushchin is a member of the expert council on biosafety of the Ministry of Health of Russia and is an observer from the Russian Federation in the joint coordinating council of the TDR WHO.