Roksana Zakharyan, Ph.D. (Armenia)
Director, RAU Institute of Biomedicine and Pharmacy
Head, Center of Excellence on "Genome editing and third generation sequencing", Russian-Armenian University (RAU)
Senior Researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology (Yerevan, Armenia)
Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia (AUA)
Dr. Roksana Zakharyan currently holds the position of Director of RAU Institute of Biomedicine and Pharmacy. Since 2021 Roksana is heading the Center of Excellence on “Genome editing and third generation sequencing” at the same university. From 2018 to 2025, Dr. Zakharyan served as Head of RAU Department of Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, and Molecular Biology. She earned her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2013. During her doctoral studies, as part of the International Visegrad Scholarship program, Dr. Zakharyan spent five months at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) in the Department of Immunogenetics and Immunoproteomics, followed by a short-term postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution.
She is also a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology (Yerevan, Armenia) and an Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia (AUA).
Her research interests span molecular biology, genetic engineering, genomics, autoimmunity, autoinflammation, and biological psychiatry. Dr. Zakharyan is the Principal Investigator of several national and international research projects.