DSc, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Mechanisms of Immunity Regulation, Carcinogenesis Research Institute, N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Oncology Center, Ministry of Health of Russia.
Pr. Kazanskiy’s scientific research interests include immunoregulatory aspects of TCR interaction with natural and artificial ligands; antitumor vaccines; mechanisms of identification of allogenic tumors; differences between functional subclasses of CD8+ T cells (naïve T cells, cytotoxic T cells, regulatory cells and memory cells) in conditions of their activation; superantigens, identification of MMTV products; autoimmunity mechanisms; unusual subpopulation of antigen-presenting cells participating in immune response to allogenic tumors; T-cell receptor transgenesis and mechanisms of intra-thymus and peripheral selection of T cells; nature of allogenic recognition and MHC restriction.
Grants and awards:
- 1996–1998 Grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- 1997–2000 Grant of the state scientific program “Next generation vaccines and medical diagnostic systems of the future”
- 1999–2001 Grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- 2001–2004 Grant of the state scientific program “Next generation vaccines and medical diagnostic systems of the future”
- 2002–2004 Grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- 2005–2007 Grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- 2006–2008 Grant from the Implementation Center “Protech”
- 2007 Awards of the N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Oncology Center for the “Cyclophilin A as a potential radioprotector and immunostimulant”
- 2008–2010 Grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
