Author: George P. Smith

Valery A Petrenko, Professor in the Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University, graduated from Moscow State University, Russia and received his Ph D and DSc degrees in chemistry from the Zelinski Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow and Moscow State University, and Honor Rank of Professor in Molecular Biology from the Supreme Attestation Committee of Russia. In 1993 he joined the faculty of University of Missouri-Columbia as Visiting Professor and Research Professor, and in 2000-the faculty of Auburn University as Professor. In Auburn, Dr Petrenko established a research program focused on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic probes using phage display technique. Dr Petrenko is recipient of grants from the Army Research Office and the National Institute of Health, recipient of the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence and Co PI in several collaborative grants. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and his major scientific interests are – monitoring and detection of biological threats, targeted drug delivery and diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer. Valery Petrenko pioneered multivalent phage display (landscape phage) in 1989 and has published many peer reviewed papers and book chapters on the applications of the phage techniques. He was a recipient of several grants from ARO, DARPA and NIH and currently has an approximate $2 million grant from the NIH aimed at phage-driven drug delivery.