Dr. Felix Urusov currently works as a senior researcher at the Centre for Strategic Planning of FMBA of Russia. From 2012 to 2018, he worked at the Central Research Institute for Epidemiology in Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology Department as a scientific researcher. He graduated from the Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla (Ufa, Russia) in 2004, and then in 2015, he received his PhD in biology. Hi area of interest in research is HIV, gene therapy, cell biology, RNA interference, and the vaccinia virus.