Abdurakhmonov Ibrokhim

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov received his BS in Biotechnology from the National University, Uzbekistan (1997), an MS in Plant Breeding from Texas A&M University (2001), a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics (2002), and a DSc from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (2009). He became a full professor (2011) at the same Academy of Sciences. He founded the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics of Uzbekistan in 2012. He was elected as a fellow (2014) of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a member (2017) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He served as Uzbekistan's Minister of Innovative Development and Higher Education, Science, and Innovations Minister from 2017 to 2023. In 2023, he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He received the 2010 TWAS prize and ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013 for his outstanding contribution to cotton genomics. He was honored as the 2022 Ambassador of Silk Road Friendship. He received the 2023 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize in the Life Sciences. He received the 8th VCANBIO Award for Biosciences and Medicine in 2023. He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.