Doctors

Dr. Galyna Kutsyna is originally from the eastern Ukraine. She obtained medical degree and completed Internship on neurology in 1995 at Luhansk’s Medical University, Ukraine. For the next eight years she was working as neurologist in small Ukrainian hospital. This was a time to realize that used in neurology therapeutic approaches are mostly symptomatic. Later on she shifted her specialization in to immunology and infectious diseases. She passed postgraduate training on Infectious Diseases and obtained PhD degree for study immunopathogenesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In 2004 at University of Montpellier, France, she passed Advanced Course for Physicians in HIV infections. On 2006-2007 there was another postgraduate training in HIV and TB at North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK. Her later scientific interests predominantly devoted the study of interaction human immune system with viral pathogens. From 2008 to 2010 she was invited as a visiting fellow at the Retroviral Vaccines Section of Basic Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA, where she studied mucosal immune response to HIV antigens and worked on HIV vaccine development on animal model. This work highlighted the future searching the ways of down regulation the non-specific and/or self destroying inflammatory immune response. Now the variety of therapeutic approaches on this direction are successfully used in her clinical practice for treatment chronic infection and autoimmune conditions. She has fifty three listed on PubMed articles. She received twelve research grants including two from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since 2018 she was approved by CDC/ US as a panel physician. Her current specialization included reproductive immunology, chronic autoimmune diseases, chronic inflammation problems; immune oncology.