Beata Tokarz-Deptuła is professor of immunology, microbiology, infectious diagnostics and microbiological techniques at the University of Szczecin, Institute of Biology, Szczecin, Poland. She is the head and main executor of research grants on infectious immunology (viruses) and bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) from the Committee for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center, among others. He is the supervisor of the Student Scientific Association of Immunologists and Microbiologists "Antigen" (since 2000) and President of the Polish Society of Experimental and Clinical Immunology, Szczecin Branch (from 2016 to 2023), and currently Vice President of this Society, as well as Vice President of the Polish Society of Microbiologists, Szczecin Branch (since 2022). She is a member of the Committee on Immunology and Etiology of Infection of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2016). Her scientific achievements include the demonstration of the role of the phagocytosis process in viral infections in animals, the identification of the occurrence of immunotypes, pathotypes and hemogroups of RHD virus (now Lagovirus europeaus), and the identification of new mechanisms in the pathogenesis of disease caused by Lagovirus europeaus, similar to diseases caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses in humans. He is also co-author of the systematics of Lagovirus europeaus G.I.