len Amare Gebreselase is a first-year PhD student at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and a researcher at the Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral research focuses on vimentin as a regulator of neuritogenesis and mitochondrial homeostasis in neuronal cells. She has published research on vimentin intermediate filaments, neuronal growth, and mitochondrial function. Her broader research interests include cell biology, molecular pathology, and the role of mitochondrial quality control in vascular disease.