In life sciences, we are a little behind the world-known leaders: the Engelhart Institute of Molecular Biology (position N7) and Shemakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. With great pride, we can also note that these highly rated, according to SciMago, institutions branched out from the Institute of Medical Enzymology (now – Institute of Biomedical Chemistry) established in 1944, USSR.

Named after its founder Vasily Orekhovich, IBMC specializes in post-genome sciences, especially computer-aided and experimental drug design, proteomics, and metabolomics.