He is an Associate Member of the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Cancer Therapeutics Research Group. Dr. Chigaev holds a doctorate in Biology from Moscow State University and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel; at Los Alamos National Laboratories; and at UNM. His research interests focus on using flow cytometry-based technologies to analyze human leukocyte function and to develop protocols that test drug sensitivity of patient samples.