Assoc. prof. Aleksandra Tomova, MD, PhD.

She graduated from Sechenov University (Moscow Medical Academy IM Sechenov) in the Russian Federation in general medicine. Subsequently, she completed an internship as a doctor in Bulgaria, and further specialized in the field of dermatology and venereology. She obtained the PhD degree at the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York Medical College, USA, where she studied the expression and regulation of bacterial genes, as well as antibiotic resistance genes. For the last 9 years, she has been studying the role of the intestinal microbiota on gastrointestinal and behaviour manifestations in children with autism spectrum disorders.