Dr. Anatoly V. Zherdev is a leading researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry, Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His scientific interests lie in the fields of regularities of intermolecular interactions in immunosensors, obtaining and characterizing bioreceptor–nanoparticle complexes, and developing new immunoanalytical techniques for medicine, agriculture, food safety and environmental monitoring. Dr. Zherdev participated/s in several international projects covering different aspects of food safety and food-related risks. He is a co-author of ~330 papers in peer-reviewed journals and ~30 patents presenting new immunoassays for various compounds. His work on the development of large-scale manufacturing of immunochromatographic strips for on-site analyses was awarded a prize by the Russian government.