At a meeting of Dissertation Committee D 208.130.03, D. S. Kostyushev defended his dissertation "Development of approaches to the destruction of the circular covalently closed DNA of the hepatitis B virus using CRISPR/CAS9 nucleases", submitted for PhD in biological science, specialty 03.02.02 – Virology.

October 7, 2019

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.