In 2000, she graduated from the Kemerovo State Medical Academy. From 2010 to 2014, she was a Researcher at Cell Technologies Laboratory, Department of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, Research Institute for Complex Problems of Cardiovascular Diseases. In 2013, she defended her Ph.D. thesis devoted to the study of the mechanisms of the formation of myocardial resistance to ischemic / reperfusion injuries during pharmacological cardioprotection. In 2014, Ya. G. Toropova took the position of a senior researcher at the Research Laboratory of Bioprosthetics and Cardiac Protection, Centre for Experimental Biomodeling, Alma-zov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Research interests concern the protection of the myocardium from ischemic and reperfusion damage, pharmacological pre- and postconditioning, targeted drug delivery.