She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science, Ohio. She received her PhD in cell biology in Internalization and intracellular sorting of growth factors receptors, in the Institute of Cytology Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg, Russia. Her reaserch field includes a role of prolactin in breast cancer progression, and currently she is focusing on a role PAK1 in prolactin and estrogen signaling. She also demostrated that the serine-threonine kinase PAK1 associates with and is tyrosyl phosphorylated