Education MS (Chemistry), Chemistry Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 1990 Ph.D (Aerospace Biology and Medicine, Pathophysiolgy), Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Institute of Biomedical Problems) of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1993 Postgraduate Training Postdoctoral Fellow in Aerospace Biology and Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Institute of Biomedical Problems), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1993-1994 Postdoctoral fellow, Russian Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia, 1994-1995 Awards and Honors Diploma with highest honors (summa cum laude), Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1990 Award of a Research Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology, 1997-1998 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Russian Club of European Academy (Academia Europaea)., 2001 Outstanding Young Scientist of Russia Award from Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 2001 Award of Fellowship from te Swiss National Science Foundation (SCOPE), 2002-2003 Francis G. Byrnes Platform Presentation Award at The LAM Foundation 18th Annual International Research Conference March 26 - 29, 2015, Chicago, IL., 2015 Francis G. Byrnes Platform Presentation Award at the International LAM Research Conference which is part of RLDC 2016 September 22-25, 2016 Covington, Kentucky, 2016 Francis G. Byrnes and Vicky H. Whittemore Travel Award at the 2017 International Research Conference on TSC and LAM, 2017

 Immunobiology and Experimental Pathology