Dr. Kate Zaytseva completed a bachelor's degree at Rostov-on-Don State University in Russia with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. In 2005 she was accepted to the Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program at the University of Kentucky. After obtaining her PhD in Biomedical Pharmacology in 2010 she joined Dr. Mark Evers' group as a post-doctoral scholar at the Markey Cancer Center. Dr. Zaytseva was awarded the NCI K22 career development grant and currently is an Assistant professor (tenure track) in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology at the University of Kentucky.