Nobel laureate Roger David Kornberg, a U.S...

"This is a big honor for Russia," Vladislav Surkov said, who also heads the Skolkovo project working group.

In March 2006, the Russian government approved a program to create technoparks to incorporate high-tech enterprises in the sectors of nano- and bio- information, and other types of technology, as well as scientific research organizations, educational institutions and other related ventures.

Zhores Alferov, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000, will become a scientific adviser to the high-tech business park and will co-chair the scientific council overseeing the project alongside foreign experts.

Surkov said that Alferov had proposed Kornberg"s candidacy for the post.

Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies on the process where genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."

"Kornberg"s research lies at a junction of chemistry, genetics, and biology,

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