Irina Faingold, PhD, is an experienced researcher in the field of biophysics, biochemistry and physico-chemical biology. She is acting head of, and is a senior researcher in, the Laboratory of Physicochemical Biology of Physiologically Active Compounds, Department of Kinetics of Chemical and Biological Processes of the Federal Research Center of the Problem of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, RAS. She studies the physicochemical, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action of biologically active compounds, experimental modelling of pathologies and the therapeutic potential of new biologically active compounds in vitro and in vivo.