Dr. Natalia Ivanovna Agalakova currently serves as the leading scientist at the Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). She graduated from the Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok, Russia) and received a Ph.D. degree after graduating from the graduate school of the Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry. Her Interests include fluorosis, neurotoxicology, synaptic plasticity, cell death pathways, erythrocytes, inorganic ions, transmembrane ion transport, lamprey physiology, natural seasonal starvation, gene expression, cancer, autophagy, and combination therapy.