Zurab Tsagareli, MD is a Professor and distinguished scholar, laureate of the State prize. He is Head of the cytology laboratory at A. Natishvili Institute of Morphology at TSU. His research interests are the theory of vascular endothelial pathology and morpho-epidemiological study of thyroid diseases in Georgia. He has authored 8 monographs, 3 textbooks and more than 200 scientific works; serves as a doctoral supervisor at the Faculty of Medicine at TSU; is a member of the Association of Pathological Anatomists of Georgia and on the editorial board of the journal Experimental and Clinical Medicine, is chairman of PhD award council,Faculty of Medicine at TSU; member of the presidium of European Microscopy Society and Association of Pathologists and Cytologists of Georgia. He has supervised international and national scientific grant projects including two financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. He lectures to TSU post-doctoral students and has been awarded the Medal of Honour.