EDUCATION
1987-1992 B.S./M.S. student – Yerevan State University (Faculty of Biology, Department of Biophysics), Armenia – Honorary diploma
1992 Visiting Student – Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Poshchino, Russian Federation
Diploma work entitled: Comparative investigation of Sr+2 and Ca+2 binding by the human apo-α-lactalbumin
1993-1994 Participated student – The Full Course of Psychiatry at Yerevan State Medical University of the Health Ministry of Armenia (Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology) 
1995-2000 Ph.D. student – Institute of Molecular Biology of Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) – Ph.D. diploma (23 March, 2001)

DEGREE
2013 Doctor of Sciences (Biology) - Habilitation degree in Armenia 
Thesis: “The HLA-III Genetic Diversity and the Complement Lectin Pathway in
Schizophrenia.”; Yerevan, Armenia

2001 Doctor of Biology (Ph.D. equal in Armenia)
Thesis: “Indexes of Neuro-immune Status of Organism in Aetiopathogenesis of
Schizophrenia.”; Yerevan, Armenia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Institute of Molecular Biology, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
2001-up today Senior Scientific Researcher 
2010-2018 Head of ‘Eco-Genetics of Populations’ Group
2001-2010 Senior Scientific Researcher
2000-2001 Scientific Researcher
1995-2000 Ph.D. Student
1992-1995 Research Assistant
1989-1992 M.S. Student 

Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (CBDB), ‘Genes, Cognition, and Psychosis Program’, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
2007-2009 Professional Service Contractor/ Guest Researcher
2006-2007 Fulbright Visiting Fellow 

MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2005-2006 Royal Society/NATO Visiting Fellow Research Field: Complement system lectin pathway in schizophrenia

Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Yerevan State Medical University, Health Ministry of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
1996-2001 Scientific Researcher (part-time) Research Field: Molecular mechanisms of chatecholamine metabolism disorder in schizophrenia

Department of Pharmacology, Yerevan State Medical University, Health Ministry of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
1994-1996 Scientific Researcher (part-time) Research Field: Mitochondrial ATPase activity in experimental hypokinesis

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2023-up today Armenian Psychiatric Association
2010-up today Scientific Council of Institute of Molecular Biology of ANAS
2005-up today Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
2010-2015 Armenian Association of Biochemists
2005-2007 British Society for Immunology
2003-up today Armenian Society of Biological Psychiatry
2003-2008 Russian Society of Biological Psychiatry
2002-up today Armenian Society of Biochemistry
1998- 2005 Scientific Council of Institute of Molecular Biology of ANAS
1998-2004 Chair of the Young Scientists Council of the Institute of Molecular Biology of ANAS
1997-2004 Young Scientists Council of the Presidium of Armenian National Academy of Sciences

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