**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Valentin A. Stonik Academician, D.Sc., Professor**.

**Affiliation:** G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Ch emistry, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

**Address:** 690022, Vladivostok, pr. 100 let Vladivostoku, 159. Russian Federation.

Tel. +7(423)-2311430; Fax: +7(423)-2314050; E-mail: stonik@piboc.dvo.ru, piboc@eastnet.febras.ru. **Position:** Research Superviser of PIBOC.

**Date of birth:** 4 December, 1942.

**Education:** 1960–1965, Far East State University, Department of Chemistry (Vladivostok, Russia).
