Julia Fedotova
Julia O. Fedotova, MD, PhD habil., Doc. Biol. Sci was born in St. Petersburg (Russia), in 1973. She graduated and received her Diploma of Pharmacist, from Pharmaceutical Faculty, St. Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy in 1996. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Physiology of Humans and Animals in 1999. She attended the Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, University of Catania in 2002, and the Institute of Physiology, Medical School, University of Pecs. She graduated from the special doctoral course in neuropharmacology at the Department of Neuropharmacology in the Institute for Experimental Medicine of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and she received her Doctor of Biological Sciences degree (Ph.D. habil.) in 2008. She is currently a professor at the ITMO University and the leading researcher at the I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology. She has more than 200 publications (mostly in Russian), 2 patents, and 4 journal articles in collaboration, as well as 6 chapters in journals. She is head of the project “The studying of Vitamin D3 role in the development of affective-related disorders in women in the climacteric period, the search of ways for pharmacorrection”, from the prestigious Russian Scientific Foundation.