Prof. Dr. Gennady Verkhivker is currently a professor of Computational Biosciences at Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, and a professor at the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chapman University, School of Pharmacy. He is also an adjunct professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC, San Diego. Dr. Verkhivker received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Moscow State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in computational biophysics from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has been the director of Structure-Based Drug Design at Pfizer Global Research and Development, La Jolla Laboratories. Since 2002, he has been an adjunct professor of Pharmacology at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC, San Diego. In 2006, he joined the School of Pharmacy and Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Kansas as a full professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioinformatics. In 2011, he assumed the position of full professor of Computational Biosciences at Schmid College of Science and Technology and professor of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chapman University School of Pharmacy in Irvine, CA. Dr. Verkhivker has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and is recognized for his research contributions in the fields of bioinformatics, computational biophysics, computational biology, and drug discovery.
