Anna Druzina was born in 1988 in Moscow (Russia). After graduation from the Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies (2011), she started her study of boron hydride chemistry at the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS PAS) under guidance of Prof. Vladimir Bregadze. In 2014 Anna Druzina received the degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences at the Department of of biological active compounds at the Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies. Currently she is Senior Researcher of Laboratory of Organoaluminium and Boron Compounds at the INEOS RAS. The area of her scientific interests is chemistry and application of polyhedral boron hydrides, including boranes, carboranes, metallacarboranes, and their organic and bioorganic derivatives, e.g. lipids, nucleosides and nucleotides. Anna Druzina is author and coauthor of ~ 23 scientific papers in this field.