Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev

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Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev is one of the founders of molecular biology of eukaryotes. When Georgiev began his research work in the late 1950s, only a few laboratories in the world were making first attempts to tackle molecular biology of higher organisms. In that period Escherichia coli cells, with their much simpler organization, were a classic object of molecular biology. However, Georgiev was interested in the structure and functions of the genetic material of animal and human cells; therefore, despite all the difficulties, he consciously embarked upon molecular biology of eukaryotes. In that time, which seems a remote past now, Georgiev’s works were substantially ahead of those by other researchers. Some findings made by Georgiev and his coworkers were not confirmed by other researchers until two or three years later. Georgiev has addressed a wide range of scientific problems. Although his preferences varied at different stages of his research work, he always obtained impressing results in every field. Undoubtedly, Georgiev is one of those researchers who choose not to remain within the scope of their “favorite” subject, but are permanently tackling new, more complicated problems instead. Amazingly, almost every time in every new field, Georgiev has managed to quickly perform brilliant studies and make discoveries that determined the development of the given branch of molecular biology for years to come. For some time now, Georgiev has been working in another new field, antitumor protection and gene therapy of cancer. Here, too, he made a considerable contribution into the development of one of the most promising aspects of this problem from the very beginning.