Prof. Dr. Denis V. Rebrikov is Vice Rector for Research and Development at the Pirogov Medical University in Moscow, Russia. He received his Master's degree from Moscow State University in 1998; his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in 2002; his MBA from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow State University, in 2008; and his PhD from the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics in Moscow in 2009. From 1998 to 2000, he was a researcher at the Regenerative Genetics Laboratory of the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2003, he was Head of the DNA Technologies Department at Yevrogin Joint Stock Company. From 2003 to 2015, he served as Head of the Center for Genetic Polymorphism Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2015, he has been working at the Pirogov Medical University. His research interests include gene expression analysis, gene cloning and sequencing, RT-PCR, cDNA and genomic DNA subtractive hybridization, and next-generation sequencing.