Education: Riga Institute of Medicine, Medical Faculty (1970-1976). PhD studies at the Institute of Organic Synthesis Latvian Academy of Sciences (1978-1981). Doctoral thesis "The neurotropic effects of low molecular weight peptides", defended at Tartu University (1982). Occupation: PhD, MD, Associate professor with 20 years of experience at the University of Latvia (1999-2014) teaching students in pharmacology, cell biology, biostatistics, and IT. Lead researcher at Riga Stradin’s University (since 2014). Research activities: immunology, virology, neurosciences, biostatistics, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. Publications: 56 articles, available at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6889-6390.