Short Biography

Prof. Igor Goryanin, FRSB
Henrik Kacser Chair in Systems Biology,
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Goryanin graduated (MSc) in 1985 as an applied mathematician from the Computer Science Department, Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (MEPHI). Goryanin spent more than twelve years working at the Institute of Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science where he obtained his PhD in 1995.

In 1995–1997, Goryanin worked as a Visiting Computer Scientist at the Mathematics & Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratories.

He joined GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 1997 and applied modelling and informatics techniques to pharmaceutical R&D and drug manufacturing.

He co-founded Biobank Inc., the first company to develop enzyme and metabolic pathways databases (EMP/MPW), and co-founded several companies, including QSP firm Institute for Systems SpB, now InsysBio.

Since 2005, Igor has held the Henrik Kacser Chair in Systems Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He co-founded the Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh (2006–2010, co-director) and the Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics (2005–2010, director).

He served as Executive Director of the BioMedical Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation (2010–2012), and Managing Partner of Polar Star Ventures (2012–2014), a biomedical venture fund.

He held an adjunct professorship at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology (2015–2020).

Currently, he leads the Biological Systems Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) as an Adjunct Professor (2010–present).

Since 2014, he has been active in Medical Microwave Radiometry, publishing over 30 papers and co-founding MMWR Ltd.

He is the author of over 200 scientific papers and 2 books.