Margarita A. Sazonova
Russian Cardiology Research and Production Complex, Russia
Biography
M.A. Sazonova graduated from Kharkov State University in 1986. She defended her PhD thesis in 1999. From 1986 to 2005 she worked in the laboratory of molecular genetics of Human Genetics Institute of Research Centre of Medical Genetics RAMS, investigating molecular genetic features of cystic fibrosis and the frequency of somatic mutations in gene K-ras in patients with adenocarcinoma of colon. Currently she is working as a senior researcher in the laboratory of angiopatology at Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology in Moscow, where she deals with the analysis of mitochondrial genome mutations in atherosclerosis. M.A. Sazonova has 115 publications.