Elza Khusnutdinova is a professor, Doctor of Sciences in Biology, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic Bashkortostan, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Eductaion, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics – Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and head of the Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine at Ufa University of Science and Technology, Ufa, Russia. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2987-3334, Researcher ID (WOS): A-4810-2013, Author ID (Scopus): 35381528600.