Irina V. Lyadova. Head of the Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Basis of Histogenesis, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Graduated from the Pirogov Moscow Medical Institute in 1982 (M.S. in Biochemistry), received a PhD in 1988 and a DSci in 2002 (Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow). From 1995 to 2019 she worked as a Senior Staff Scientist and then as Head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology at the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute (Moscow), since 2019 – as a Main Staff Scientist and then as Head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Basis of Histogenesis at the Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Research interests: infectious immunology, hematopoiesis and immune cell differentiation, T-cells, macrophages and neutrophils in the protection and pathology during infectious diseases, inflammation, immune cell differentiation from iPSCs, flow cytometry.