Tahir H Tahirov
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Biography
Tahir Tahirov has received his Master of Science degree in metallophysics from Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine). During doctoral training in crystallochemistry in the Chernogolovka branch of the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (Russia) he discovered a new class of organic superconductors with two incommensurate crystal lattices. His career in structural biology has started during postdoctoral training in Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) where he solved the first crystal structure of protein. He continued his studies as a researcher at the Himeji Institute of Technology, Osaka University and the Yokohama City University School of Medicine, and then as a team leader at the RIKEN Harima Institute. At the age of 43 Dr. Tahirov became a Full Professor at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center. He has published over 120 research articles (50 in physics and chemistry and the rest in structural biology). He is one of the leading experts in structural studies of human DNA replication machinery.