Dr. Alexandra Potekhina is a research associate at the Department of Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Diseases, National Medical Research Center of Cardiology of the Russian Ministry of Health. In 2006, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University. In 2008, she graduated from clinical residency at the Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after A.L. Myasnikov. In 2011, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after A.L. Myasnikova. From 2011 to 2017, she was a junior researcher in the Department of Chronic IHD, and since 2017,  she has been a certified physician in the specialties of cardiology and functional diagnostics. Her scientific focus area is the immunology of atherosclerosis and the identification of early markers of atherosclerosis progression in order to individualize patient treatment.