Elena G. Salina received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical engineering in 2000 and M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology in 2002 from the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Then, she began graduate studies at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, under the direction of Prof. Arseny Kaprelyants, and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2006. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the same Institute, working on the mechanisms of M. tuberculosis persistence and modeling mycobacterial dormancy. Later, she worked to find new drugs for tuberculosis at the Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, where she is currently an Associate Professor with a Doctor of Sciences degree in Biochemistry. Elena G. Salina’s research interests concern the molecular mechanisms of TB infection, its persistence and virulence, and the discovery of new drugs for treating latent tuberculosis infection and maintaining the function of regulatory small non-coding RNAs