The Organizing Meeting of Russian Section of the QSAR and Modelling Society has been held in the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry (IBMC) of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow) on June 3, 1996.

IBMC is the leading Russian organization in the field of Bioinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery.

Jointly with the Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences (Prof. Oleg Raevsky group) and Chemical Department of Moscow State University (Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Zefirov group), IBMC (Full Member of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Alexander Archakov, Prof. Vladimir Poroikov and Prof. Alexis Ivanov groups) pioneered the organization of Russian Section of the QSAR and Modelling Society.

In 2006 Russian Section of the QSAR and Modelling Society includes more than 80 members from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Pyatigorsk, Volgograd, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Barnaul, Ivanovo, and other cities of Russian Federation. This is about 10% of the total number of the QSAR and Modelling Society members. They carry out their research in multidisciplinary field covering medicinal chemistry, toxicology, pharmacology,informatics & computer science, etc.

The main purpose of Russian Section of the QSAR and Modelling Society is the promotion of collaboration between Russian and foreign scientists in the fields of Bioinformatics, (Q)SAR, Molecular Modelling, and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery. Therefore, the Russian Section intends to provide its activity in close collaboration with the International Board of the QSAR and Modelling Society.