Vladimir Burmistrov, an alumnus of the Bruce Hammock lab in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has won the President's Award for Young Ph.Ds in Russia, a grant awarded annually by the President of Russia to the best young (under 35 years of age) Ph.D. in various fields of science.

Burmistrov plans to spend some of the grant money to return to UC Davis in 2016 to work with Hammock, researcher Christophe Morissseau and other colleagues.

Burmistrov is with the Department of Chemistry, Technology and Equipment of Chemical Industry, Volzhsky Polytechnic Institute (Branch) Volgograd State Technical University. He works as a docent at the Volgograd State Technical University, where he received his doctorate in 2013.

He is also continuing his research that he started in graduate school. “I focus on synthesis of new isocyanates and the ways of its applying,” Burmistrov said. “ When I started to develop ureas from my isocyanates I came across the research being performed at UC Davis and met Professor Hammock, Christophe Morisseau and the others. Now we collaborate in an area of human soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitors.”

Hammock, Morisseau, Burmistrov and other colleagues recently published work in the Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, on “Symmetric Adamantyl-Diureas as Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibitors.”

Hammock, a distinguished professor of entomology, holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. He directs the NIEHS-UC Davis Superfund Research Program or the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hammock is also the principal investigator of the NIH Biotechnology Training Program at UC Davis.