Mariya Sergeevna Ryabtseva graduated with honours from the Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology, Russia, as a specialty doctor of veterinary medicine, in 2009. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Russian State Center for Animal Feed and Drug Standardization and Quality, Russia, in 2013. She has experience in the field from 2005 onwards, and she is currently working as researcher in the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. Her main areas of scientific interest are pharmacology, drug development, preclinical study and toxicology.