Dr. Vasily Kazey earned his PhD in neuroscience from Moscow State University in 2002. Following this, he gained international experience as a visiting scientist at Justus Liebig University in Germany. In 2004, he transitioned to drug discovery, joining ChemDiv in San Diego, USA, before establishing and managing the Lead Discovery Department at Chemical Diversity Research Institute in Moscow. Dr. Kazey's leadership led to successful collaborations with pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly and MerckSerono. He later co-founded Exacte Labs, a bioanalytical laboratory, which now operates independently.