Eugene Davidovich Sverdlov is a Russian biochemist, Doctor of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University .
Director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1988–2006).
Laureate of the 1981 USSR State Prize, 1984 Lenin Prize and of the 2015 State Prize of the Russian Federation.