Dr. Tsygankova Victoria Anatolyivna is currently working as Head of a group of screening of the synthetic compounds, Principal researcher in the Department of Chemistry of Bioactive Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic Compounds at Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, NAS, Ukraine. She received her Ph.D. Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of NAS of Ukraine; previously she served as Research assistant and Senior Staff Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, NAS, Ukraine;

Dr. Tsygankova Victoria Anatolyivna she received many grants and awards. She is Member of the Academic Councils. She attended many international conferences. She also serves as editorial board member for several scientific journals. She published many articles in scholarly journals.

Dr. Tsygankova Victoria Anatolyivna research interest includes The creation of new effective and ecologically safe plant growth regulators of synthetic and natural origin and study of the physiological, biochemical and molecular-genetic aspects of their action on accelerating growth of agricultural plants, improving of crop productivity and increasing of plant resistance to pathogenic and parasitic organisms (bacteria, fungi, nematodes and insect-pests) and stress-factors of environment (drought, cold, heat, soil contamination etc.) by the way of inducing of RNA interference (RNAi) process in the plant cells.