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Katarina Davalieva is a senior researcher and since 2015, Head of the Proteomics Department at the RCGEB “Georgi D. Efremov”, MASA, Skopje, Macedonia. She has received her trainings at the several top institutions in Europe and USA such as Institute Cochin, Paris, France, Vienna University of Technology, Columbia University, NY, USA, Waters MS Technologies Centre, UK, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy, etc. Her research is focused on elucidation of the disease mechanisms through whole proteome comparison of diseased and healthy samples and search for non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers. Significant part of the proteomics work has been related to protein expression profiling of complex diseases/conditions such as cancer, infertility, neuropsychiatric disorders. She has published over 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has participated with more than 50 presentations on different scientific events.

Presentation title: Functional proteomics investigation of biomarkers and molecular pathways of infertility