Consultant, Immunology and Research
Dr. Dmitry Сhudakov studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia. Since 2000 Dr Сhudakov has been working at the Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBCH RAS), where he received his PhD and Doctor of Science degrees in 2003 and 2011, respectively. Since 2013, Dr. Chudakov has also held a position of Head of the Research group Adaptive Immunity at Central European Institute of Technology in the Czech Republic. In 2016, he founded MiLaboratories company. In 2017, he became Head of the Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity in IBCH RAS. In the same year he became the Head of the Institute of Translational Medicine, Pirogov medical university. From 2018 – Associate professor, Skoltech University.
Dr. Chudakov’s research and innovation activities include, among others, development of molecular tools for the basic and biomedical studies, as well development of new methods to identify PCR and sequencing errors and analyse high-throughput sequencing data. His current focus of interest is the role of clonal T cell and B cell populations in autoimmunity and cancer, quantitative analysis of individual T cell receptor and antibody repertoires in health and disease. Dr. Сhudakov participated in more than 60 international conferences in more than 10 countries, mostly as a speaker. He is a holder of several patents, an author of >160 publications in peer reviewed journals, with h = 59, >13,000 citations, WOS. Dmitry was awarded with several prestigious prizes including the Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists (2013). In 2016 he was awarded the title of Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences in Biology. From 2022 – corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences in Medicine.