At the meeting of Dissertation Council D 208.130.03, the defense of thesis by D. S. Kostyushev – “Development of approaches to the destruction of the circular covalently closed DNA of the hepatitis B virus using CRISPR/CAS9 nucleases” took place, submitted for the degree of candidate of biological sciences in specialty 03.02.02 – Virology.
The thesis was developed in the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor)
Academic supervisor: V. P. Chulanov, Doctor of Medical Sciences.
Official reviewers: Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences S. V. Netesov and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences K. K. Kyuregyan.
External reviewer: Federal Budgetary Institution of Science “Pasteur St. Petersburg Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology” of Rospotrebnadzor.