Sabzali Javadov received his M.D. degree in medical biochemistry from the Russian Medical University (1983), a Ph.D. in biochemistry and cardiology from the Cardiology Research Center, Moscow (1986) and a D.Sc. in experimental cardiology from the Moscow State University (1993). He had postdoctoral training in biochemistry and experimental cardiology at the Magdeburg Medical Academy in Germany, the National Institute of Cardiology in Hungary and the University of Bristol, England among others. He won the Royal Society award three times to conduct collaborative research in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Bristol, UK. Since 2003, Dr. Javadov worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. At the present time he is Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico.