Dr. Stanislav Sitkin, North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburg, Russia. Almazov National Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Stanislav Sitkin is the Associated Professor in the Department of Internal Diseases, Gastroenterology & Dietetics (North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburg, Russia). He graduated from the Riga Medical Institute (now Riga Stradins University, Latvia) in 1986. He received his PhD in 1990 and Dr. med. in 1994. He has published more than 250 research papers. He works as an academic researcher at I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University (St. Petersburg, Russia), and the head of Epigenetics & Metagenomics Research Group at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre. His current research interests include the human microbiome, diet-microbiota-host interactions, molecular mechanisms and targets in gastrointestinal and liver diseases, metabolomics, the search for novel biomarkers among microbial and endogenous metabolites, and the discovery of novel nutritional (food supplements, probiotics, prebiotics, dietary fiber, postbiotics) and therapeutic agents for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), chronic liver disease, metabolic disorders, gynecological and pediatric diseases. As an academic researcher, he also investigates fucosylated bacterial and host glycans as molecular patterns of the immune response in IBD at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre. As a leading researcher at the World-Class Research Centre for Personalized Medicine, he investigates the role of microbiota in the pathogenesis of neoplasms of the female reproductive system in the Laboratory of Oncofertility and Gynecologic Oncology. He was awarded the State Prize for Young Scientists in 1988, as well as the National Society of Inventors and Innovators Award, and the Certificate of Merit of the Russian National Medical Chamber in 2014. He is the current General Secretary of the Gastroenterological Scientific Society of Russia and the current Vice President of the Russian IBD Study Society.