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Mgr. Andrea Zat'ková, PhD. (53 years old - in 2024) - independent researcher with rich research experience both at home and at renowned foreign institutions (e.g. Unidad de Patologia Molecular, Fundacion Jiménez Diaz, Madrid, Spain; Laboratory of Medical Biology of Vienna Medical University). Her research focuses on the molecular genetics of inherited diseases. She is the creator and curator of the international online database of HGD gene variants (http://hgddatabase.cvtisr.sk/), which summarizes sequence variants in patients with alkaptonuria. Under her leadership, the Laboratory of Genetics of the BMC SAS participated in the FP7 DevelopAKUre project - Clinical Development of Nitisinone for Alkaptonuria (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1 Grant 304985) and in the VEGA 2/0040/20 project, which ended in 2022. She is co-author of one monograph, while the SCOPUS database records 44 of her scientific publications with 1029 citations and an h-index of 19. (WOS: 43 core collection publications, h-index 17, 890 citations, 825 without self-citations)