Diana Yuzhakova (PhD) is a researcher of the Lab of Genomics of Adaptive Antitumor Immunity. She graduated from the Biology Department of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 2013 (with distinction) and received her PhD in Biophysics in 2018. She has about 10 years of experience as an investigator in biophysics and biomedical applications. Her scientific interests include experimental oncology, cancer immunity and immunotherapy, fluorescence imaging, and photodynamic therapy with genetically-encoded photosensitizers. Her current research focuses on the investigation of tumor-specific lymphocytes and markers of the effectiveness of immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors, development of a novel patient-derived orthotopic model of glioblastoma, and validating the diagnostic possibilities of new optical imaging techniques. She is the coauthor of 45 peer-reviewed articles and proceedings in international and national conferences, of which 7 reports were awarded as the best reports.