Dr. Anton Yuryev is Professional Services Director at Elsevier; he is responsible for the development of targeted bioinformatics solutions using Elsevier software and knowledge bases for areas of drug development, personalized medicine and agrobiology. Dr. Yuryev holds an MS in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University, USA; where he discovered proteins physically linking gene transcription with mRNA processing in eukaryotic cells. Dr. Yuryev has published more than 50 scientific publications, edited three scientific books, and authored several algorithms for primer design and pathway.
To achieve successful precision medicine at scale and to be able to offer it as an everyday treatment option, researchers in drug R&D need to better understand and manage the reams of unstructured data available to them.