Prof. Vladimir Uversky is a Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida (USF). He obtained Ph.D. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991) and a D.Sc. from the Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics (1998).
He obtained pre- and postdoctoral training in Structural Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics (1991-1998, Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences) and spent his early career working on protein folding at the Institute of Protein Research and the Institute for Biological Instrumentation (Russia). In 1998, he moved to the University of California Santa Cruz, where for six years he was studying protein folding, misfolding, protein conformation diseases, and protein intrinsic disorder phenomenon. In 2004, he was invited to join the Indiana University School of Medicine as a Senior Research Professor to work on intrinsically disordered proteins. Since 2010, he has been with USF, where he continues to study intrinsically disordered proteins, protein folding and misfolding processes, as well as liquid-liquid phase transitions and their applications in biology.
He has authored over 1500 scientific publications and edited several books and book series on protein structure, function, folding, and misfolding. Among his most recent edited volumes are "Droplets of Life: Membrane-less Organelles, Biomolecular Condensates, and Biological Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation" (ISBN: 9780128239674), "Structure and Intrinsic Disorder in Enzymology" (together with Munishwar Gupta, ISBN: 9780323995337), and “The Three Functional States of Proteins: Structured, Intrin-sically Disordered, and Phase Separated” (together with Prof. Timir Tripathi, ISBN: 9780443218095. He is also an editor of several scientific journals. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2024, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.