Structural bioinformatician Narek Abelyan, who is engaged in various research projects by Russian-Armenian University, will soon defend his dissertation to become a candidate of biological sciences. Narek’s scientific interests were outlined largely owing to his studies at Jewish school in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and at school in Sisian, Armenia, as well as the factor of his mum being a biology and chemistry teacher. Even though Narek had no Jewish roots, his parents opted for that particular school due to its high quality education and discipline. Later on, he carried on with higher education in the Faculty of Bioengineering, bioinformatics and molecular biology at Russian-Armenian University, having done a postgraduate program in the same domain. Narek has been actively engaged in fundamental science research in various laboratories and groups for approximately 6 years already, has also worked for the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST), and has been involved in the company Denovo Sciences as a computational biologist. Narek is the co-founder of the startup Biocentric.AI, which currently takes up most of his time.