Anton Yuryev is a Russian American scientist.

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Anton Yuryev was born in Moscow, Russia in 1966. He is son of Dmitri Furman, Russian political scientist, sociologist, and expert on religions.

Yuryev was awarded Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University for discovery of novel family of proteins interacting with C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II holoenzyme using yeast two-hybrid screening. Sequence similarity of these proteins to splicing factors suggested the existence of physical coupling between transcription and post-transcriptional modification of messenger RNA. He continued his research as postdoctoral fellow at Novartis Pharmaceuticals where he demonstrated that mammalian ARAF protein kinase can be imported into mitochondria. During the completion of human genome sequencing he started working in the new emerging field of bioinformatics. While working at Orchid Biosciences between 2001 and 2003 he authored several algorithms for PCR primer design using statistical modeling. Anton Yuryev was one of the original owner of Ariadne Genomics Inc where he has developed methods for Natural Language Processing, for computational Pathway analysis, and studied properties of Biological network. Anton Yuryev has edited several scientific books and numerous research articles. Ariadne Genomics Inc was acquired by Elsevier in 2011. He is now working as a Consulting and Professional Service Director at Elsevier.

Personal life

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Anton Yuryev is married to Alexandra Belenkaya. He has two daughters from the first marriage - Alisa Kasimova and Kristina Kasimova, step daughter - Victoria Thomas, and son Clement Yuryev from his second marriage.

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Dr. Anton Yuryev received his B.Sc. in physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1987. Dr. Anton Yuryev received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Johns Hopkins University in 1995.

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