Veniamin Khazanov is a Doctor of Medicine, Professor, pharmacologist, biochemist and a specialist in drug design and development. In 1976 Veniamin Khazanov has graduated the Medical Faculty of Tomsk Medical Institute.
From 1976 till 1984 he was a post-graduate and, worked at the Pharmacology Department of Tomsk Medical Institute. He had training courses at the Research Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences) in Pushchino and at the Pennsylvania University of Philadelphia, USA.
Since 1984 he took part in the foundation of Tomsk Research Institute of Pharmacology (Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch) and carried on the equipment supply in all departments of the Institute, supporting its mounting, adjustment and starting-up.
Veniamin Khazanov has created the laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at Tomsk Institute of Pharmacology, and headed the latter. Dealing with fundamental research, Veniamin Khazanov has founded a new scientific concept of energy metabolism pharmacological regulation (approved by the Presidium of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Creation of a new class of medicines called energy metabolism regulators was a practical realisation of his fundamental research.
Veniamin Khazanov is an author of a number of Russian Federation patents, the work on development of a number of innovative drugs being based on. Veniamin Khazanov is permanently preparing documents for international patenting of his inventions.
Veniamin Khazanov is an organiser of multi-centre clinical studies of drugs in various spheres of medicine (pediatry, gerontology, therapy, cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, endocrinology, hepatology, urology, andrology, oncology, phthisiology, infectious diseases, obstetrics, gynecology, occupational diseases, physiotherapy and balneology).
He is an organiser of the first pharmaco-economic research of energy metabolism regulators in Russia. Since 2002 Veniamin Khazanov is an organiser and a chairman of annual Russian symposia on energy metabolism pharmacological regulation.
Veniamin Khazanov is an author of more than 100 scientific publications on pharmacology. He is a supervisor of 3 doctor and more than 10 candidate theses devoted to fundamental and applied research concerned with drug design.
Veniamin Khazanov is a supervisor of contract R&D (Research and Development) on drug design at the Institute of Pharmacology for pharmaceutical companies. More than 30 drugs have been investigated. Veniamin Khazanov is an organiser and the head of the first and the only Department on drug pharmacokinetics research in Siberia and Far East, located at the Institute of Pharmacology. He is also an organiser and the head of training courses on HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatography) methods for drug quality control, and founded at the same Research Institute, intended for specialists in pharmaceutics and the State Control Organisation.
In 1994, as a winner of the All-Russian competition, Veniamin Khazanov had a training course (in USA) on pharmaceutical business, development and organisation of drug production, in compliance with international quality standards (Good Laboratory Practice, Good Clinical Practice, Good Manufacturing Practice), organised by the USA governmental program called “Business for Russia”.
Veniamin Khazanov is an initiator of the partnership between his research group comprising drugs and biologically active substances developers and manufacturers on the one hand, and Tomsk Institute of Pharmacology of the Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences on the other hand. Such collaboration made possible an extended and full-cycle development of pharmaceutical preparations including drug manufacturing industrial scaling up supervision.
Since 2007 Veniamin Khazanov became an initiator of some international projects concerned with drugs and biologically active substances design for European pharmaceutical companies.
As a head of the innovative company, Veniamin Khazanov became a winner of the Russian competition of companies selected for the international TASIS project for bringing out Russian goods and services on the European market.