Boris Malyugin is professor of ophthalmology, head of the Cataract and Implant Surgery Department and deputy director general (R&D) of the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex State Institution in Moscow, Russia. He is chair of the Cataract and Refractive Surgery Committee of the Russian Society of Ophthalmologists and a member of the ESCRS Board Committee and the International Intraocular Implant Club. Prof. Malyugin is a chief medical editor of EuroTimes (Russian Edition) and associate editor of the Russian journals Ophthalmosurgeryand News in Ophthalmology. He sits on the editorial boards of EuroTimes (international edition), Annals of Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today (Europe), Ocular Surgery News, Journal of the Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society (India), Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology. He has published widely on research focused on cataract and corneal diseases in peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Malyugin has received multiple international awards and has been invited to deliver lectures and conduct live surgery sessions at national and international meetings.