Associate member of the RAS N.G. Mokrysheva: “...endocrine health is a key to health of all your body

Abstract

An interview with Natalia Georgievna Mokrysheva, an associate member of the Russian Academy of Science, Director of the National Medical Research Centre for Endocrinology.

 Natalia Georgievna told us how her family had impacted her choice of profession and how I.I. Dedov, an academician of the Russian Academy of Science, helped her become a doctor and a scientist. Also, she provided some piece of advice for young scientists to listen to themselves when choosing their major and unlocked the secret of how to manage to do everything.

The interview details the developments conducted by the National Medical Research Centre for Endocrinology: technologies for cell cultivation for patients and attempts to create 3D live models of tumours for studies of various drugs. The technology for cell programming and genome editing in endocrine oncology has been put in practice. The Centre has a fundamental experimental endocrinological scientific framework.

Professor Mokrysheva focused her attention on one of the most essential issues — cardiometabolic complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Last year, the Centre for Metabolic Disorders and Obesity in Children and Adults was opened, making it possible to treat the problem of obesity in its entirety.