Field of activity: medical genetics, molecular biology.
From 2009 till 2018 the Head of the department was Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Mynzhanov Masygut Rahimovich.
In 1998 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the All-Russian Institute of Helminthology named after K.I. Skryabin, Moscow city. He has 3 monographs, 90 printed works in foreign and domestic publications, 2 patents for inventions.