Natalia Shakhova,
leading scientist, Biophotonics laboratory
D.Sci
Education:
1974-1980 - Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy
1980-1981 - postgraduate student at the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy. N.Novgorod Maternity Hospital, specialization – Obstetrics and Gynecology
1996 - PhD Medicine
2005 - Doctor of Science Medicine
Scope of professional interests:
- translational medicine;
- oncogynecology;
- laporoscopy, hysteroscopy, colposcopy;
- biophotonics, optical bioimaging;
- laser surgery;
- photodynamic diagnosing (PDD) and photodynamic therapy(PDT)
Professional career:
1980-1991 - medical doctor (Maternity Home, Regional Hospital
1991-1996 - Assistant professor Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
1997-2000 - Assistant professor Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Senior scientist Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
2001-present - Leading scientist Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
2005-2013 - Professor Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2011-- present Leading scientist Nizhny Novgorod State University
Visitor researcher:
KARL STORZ GmbH & Co(Germany - Tuttlingen, France - Paris, Chartres, Clermont-Ferrand, 1998)
Ñleveland Ñlinic Foundation (USA, Ñleveland, 2003)
University of Florida (USA, Gainesville, 2003)
University of Texas (USA, Austin, Galveston 2003)
University of California (USA, Irvine, 2005)
Anticancer Inc. (USA, San Diego, 2005)
Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (USA, Los Angeles, 2008)
University of Munich (Germany, Munich, 2010)
Membership in professional organizations:
2005- present - program committee member conference «Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine» (Photonics West, BiOS), USA
2005-2011 - program committee member conference «Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Techniques» (SPIE/OSA European Conferences on Biomedical Optics), Germany
2011-present - program committee member conference «Medical Laser Applications and Laser-Tissue Interactions» (SPIE/OSA European Conferences on Biomedical Optics), Germany
2006-present - program committee member Troitsk conferences «Medical physics», Russia
2007-present – chair of «Optical Bioimaging» conference in International Symposium «Topical problems of Biophotonics’2007’2009’2011’2013», Russia
2011-present - member of editorial board Photonics & Lasers in Medicine, ISSN 2193-0643, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin\Boston
2012-present - member of editorial board Photodynamic therapy and photodiagnising, ISSN 2306-9597, Moscow
2005-2012 - member of council of experts of Russian Foundation for Basic Research 02-900 «Medical physics»
2005-present - expert of Russian Foundation for Basic Research
2012-present – registered in the national list of experts in scientific and technical activity
Reviewer Journal of Biomedical Optics, «Modern Technologies in Medicine»
Awards, prizes, grants:
1999 - State Prize 1999 in Science and Technology
Managing of scientific projects
2001-2013 - projects of Presidium RAS «Fundamental Sciences for Medicine»
2011-2013 - grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research 11-02-00916-à «Noninvasive monitoring of new photosensitizer with optical bioimaging»
2008-2009 - grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research 08-02-99049-r_ofi «Development of optical bioimaging technology for PDT monitoring»
2012-2013 - in the frames of the Federal Targeted Program «Optical coherence tomography as a method of investigation of pathological alterations mechanisms in reproductive medidcine» (Project ¹8147)
Pedagogical activities:
2005-2013 - professor of Obstetrics&Gynecology Department of Medical Academy
2012 - lectures "Introscopy" and «Photodynamic Therapy»for students of the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy
2013 - lectures "Introscopy" for researchers and physician of postgraduate courses in Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy
Publications:
Total 156 publications, since 2008 - 69: 20 peer-reviewed journal publications, 5 book chapters, 1 handbook, 39 abstracts in conference proceedings
