Currently, he is a professor of oncology at Roswell Park Institute, New York. In his education life, Blagosklonny received a master degree in internal medicine. He then went ahead to earn a Ph.D. in cardiology and experimental medicine from the First Pavlov Medical University of St. Petersburg. He was also given the position of an associate professor of medicine at the New York Medical College. He then rose to the position of a senior scientist at Ordway Research Institute, which he held until 2009.