Aleksandra Dubrovina, a biologist from Vladivostok, won the Presidential Prize for Young Scientists. The size of the award is 5 million rubles.

On the eve of Science Day, which is celebrated on February 8, the names of the winners of the prestigious prize were announced. This year a strict jury selected three works.

Alexandra Dubrovina, a graduate of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at FEFU and a senior researcher at the Federal Research Center for Terrestrial Biodiversity of East Asia, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, received the prize for developing new approaches to induction of RNA interference and directed regulation of plant genes. 

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