Dr. Dauren Botbayev | Molecular Genetics | Research Excellence Award

Senior Researcher in Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Kazakhstan

Dr. Dauren Botbayev earned a Bachelor of Technics and Technologies in Biotechnology and a Master of Natural Sciences from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he also pursued his Ph.D. in Biotechnology. He completed advanced English training at the Intensive English Institute, University of California San Diego, and obtained a Master of Translational Biotechnology from the University of Southern California – Keck School of Medicine. He began his career at M.A. Aitkhozhin’s Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry as a Lab Assistant and progressed to Research Scientist and Senior Researcher. He also served as a Research Assistant at the University of Bologna in Italy. In academia, he joined Satbayev University’s School of Chemical and Biological Engineering as a Lecturer and later advanced to Senior Lecturer. His academic and research career reflects strong expertise in biotechnology, molecular biology, and translational research.