Victor Babich obtained his MS in Physics in 1997 from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic State University (Russia) and his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2000 from The Institute of Cytology Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia). His PhD thesis was on the study of mobile genetic element regulation of human gene expression. From 2001 to 2007 he successfully completed two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX) and the second at the National Institute for Medical Research MRC (London, UK). The main focus of both fellowships was the study of protein trafficking, respectively, in the renal and cardiovascular systems. Since 2007 Victor is holding a junior faculty position at the UT Southwestern Medical Center. Victor is author or co-author of over 12 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and over 10 presentations in international scientific meetings. He was awarded  grants from the St. Petersburg Government (Russia) and American Society of Nephrology.