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Ekaterina Mikhalitskaya began her professional and scientific career at the Mental Health Research Institute in 2014, working as a research assistant in the Laboratory of Pharmacogenetics of Mental and Neurodegenerative Disorders while still a student at the Siberian State Medical University. In 2015, she graduated from the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at the Siberian State Medical University, specializing in "Medical Biochemistry" and qualifying as a physician-biochemist. In 2022, she successfully defended her Candidate of Medical Sciences (PhD) thesis, titled "Regulatory Proteins and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Affective Disorders, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Their Comorbidity," covering the fields of Psychiatry (14.01.06) and Pathological Physiology (14.03.03). In 2025, she had her doctoral dissertation topic approved in the field of Psychiatry and Addictology (3.1.17; Medical Sciences), titled "Genes Related to Immunoinflammatory Factors and Neuroprotection in Affective Disorders, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Their Comorbidity." Currently, Ekaterina serves as a Research Fellow in the Department of Affective Disorders at the Mental Health Research Institute, Tomsk NRMC.
Primary research interests of E.V. Mikhalitskaya: - the study of mental disorders (alcohol use disorders, affective disorders, schizophrenia) in terms of the disruption of intracellular protein kinase signaling pathways, genetic factors, immunoinflammation and neuroprotection.