Elvira Aslanovna Pocheshkhova

Biography

Elvira A. Pocheshkhova graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Kuban State Medical Institute in 1994. In 1998, she successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in the specialty "Genetics" (03.00.15) in the specialized dissertation council of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Medical Genetic Research Centre" of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow). After defending her Ph.D. thesis, she continued to actively engage in scientific activities, exploring the structure of the gene pool of the peoples of the Western Caucasus. In 2004, by the decision of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, she was awarded the academic rank of Associate Professor. In 2008, she defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences in the specialty "Genetics" (03.00.15) in the specialized dissertation council of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Medical Genetic Research Centre" of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow).
In 2009-2011, Elvira Pocheshkhova served as director of the Research Institute of Complex Problems of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Adyghe State University". She successfully solved issues of an administrative and organizational nature necessary to ensure the activities of the institute entrusted to her and the organization of scientific research. She conducted scientific research in the field of variability of the gene pool of the peoples of the North Caucasus, as well as population analysis of genetic markers.
Currently, Elvira Pocheshkhova works as a professor at the Department of Biology with a Course of Medical Genetics at the Kuban State Medical University (Krasnodar).
She was the head of a number of competitive projects of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), as well as a participant in grants from the RFBR, the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation. She acted as a responsible coordinator for the Caucasus region in the framework of the largest international project to study the genetic variability of human populations "Genographic" (2005-2011). From 1994 to the present, she has been conducting intensive expeditionary work to survey the populations of the peoples of the North Caucasus - from Western to Eastern (Abkhazia, Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Region, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan). She carries out active cooperation with the leading genetic research centres in Moscow, including the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Academician N.P. Bochkov Medical Genetic Research Centre" (Moscow).
Elvira Pocheshkhova is the author of about 150 scientific papers in leading publications in Russia and abroad, including Nature, American Journal of Human Genetics, PLoS One, Genome Res, etc.
For successful work in the training of medical personnel, active educational, methodological, research and social activities, Elvira Pocheshkhova was repeatedly awarded with certificates of various levels, including: Certificate of Honour of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (2008); Honorary Diploma of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Adygea (2002); Gratitude of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory (2023).
Research area: human genetics. Area of scientific interests:human population genetics, medical genetics.
Member of the Russian Society of Medical Genetics; Member of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders; Member of the European Anthropological Association.
Area of scientific publications: Genetic structure of Eurasian populations, medical genetic survey of the population of the Krasnodar Region and the Republic of Adygea, genetic history of the peoples of Eurasia, pharmacogenetic markers in the population, biometrics and numerical modeling in population genetics.