Vladimir L. Buchman, MD, PhD, joined a research team at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences to study regulatory pathways in eukaryotic cells after graduation in 1972 from Pirogov Moscow Medical Institute with his MD degree. He earned his PhD degree in 1978. The next few years were devoted to structural and functional studies of human p53 gene.

In 1984 Dr. Buchman organized a new research unit, with the main goal to reveal and study genes involved in the development of the nervous system. He continued these studies and others in the laboratory of Alun Davies at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, where he moved in 1991. At the University of St. Andrews the focus of Dr. Buchman’s studies gradually changed towards functional studies of genes and proteins involved in pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. In 1997 he became a lecturer and in 2000 moved to the University of Edinburgh as a reader in molecular and cellular neuroscience. Since 2004 he has been a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Cardiff University.