Yuriy Akulov, MD, PhD, has been a Clinical Research Investigator at ACRIA since 2001, and conducts all phases of clinical trials (I-IV) with a variety of pharmaceutical companies, including Koronis, TaiMed, Incyte, TheraTechnology, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Pfizer.  He has extensive medical, research, and administrative experience, including fourteen years as a physician and senior researcher and more than two years as Director of the Science Department at the Central Research Institute for Dermatology and Venereology in Moscow, Russia.