Dr. S. Bystryak holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has extensive experience in developing and implementing new biomedical technologies, and has developed, validated and marketed several new technologies in the field of life sciences. Dr. S. Bystryak’s focus is on the preparation and characterization of polymer, surfactant and colloidal systems such as nanocrystals, nanoemulsions, liposomes, latex and protein particles by using ultrasound, fluorescence, confocal fluorescence microscopy, light scattering, potentiometry and conductometry techniques, NMR and microcalorimetry. Dr. S. Bystryak is President of Allied Innovative Systems – an R&D company engaged in the development of new technologies in the field of biochemical and biomedical assays and reagents.