Gulnar D. Ultanbekova was born in 1977 in Kazakhstan. She is Kazakh by nationality and holds a higher education degree from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU). In 1998, she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from the Faculty of Biology. She continued her studies in the Master's program in General University Ecology (1998–2000), successfully defending her thesis. In 2009, she was awarded the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD equivalent).Her professional career began in 2001 at AO "Biomedpreparat Engineering Center" in Stepnogorsk, where she worked as a Junior Research Scientist in the microbiological monitoring laboratory until 2008. In 2008, she served as a marketer at the Center for Biological Research in Almaty. From 2009 to 2018, she was affiliated with the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, progressing from Research Scientist to Head of the Antibiotics Laboratory. In 2013–2015, as Head of the Laboratory of Nitrogen-Fixing Microorganisms, under Academician A.K. Sadanov, she contributed to the development of the "Rizovit-AKS" series of biopreparations for legumes (chickpea, alfalfa, soybean, pea, lentil), resulting in 7 patents of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Between 2015 and 2017, as Head of the Antibiotics Laboratory, she played a key role in optimizing the production technology of the antifungal drug "Roseofungin-AS, 2% ointment," including equipment procurement, process design, line launch, preparation of batches for all three pha