Evgeniy A. Tkachenko I’m working in the virology and epidemiology fields more than forty years. I’ve graduated from Medical Institute of Moscow (Russia) in 1965 year. I’m a Head of Scientific direction in “Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of Russian Academy of Sciences” (Institute of Poliomyelitis) at present. My research interests are: hantaviruses ecology and biology; hantaviral infections epidemiology and clinic; development and improvement of the methods for hantavirus laboratory diagnosis and constructing vaccines against hantaviruses.