Prof. Dr. Marina A. Zenkova graduated in Chemistry (B.Sc., 1977) with a Ph.D. in site-selective modification of RNA (1991, Novosibirsk, Russia). She continued her research in France at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Strasbourg, 1991–1995) collaborating with the laboratory of Prof. B. Ehressmann. In 2003, Marina received a degree of Doctor of Sciences working in the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Novosibirsk, Russia), and a year later, she became a Professor. In September 2006, she was appointed as the director of the Laboratory of Nucleic Acids Biochemistry in the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.