Dr. Khrystyna Kvit, Ph.D, MD is a board-certified gastroenterologist with over a decade of professional experience. Her main areas of interest include liver health, gut microbiome, and metabolic diseases. Dr. Kvit currently serves as an Associate Professor in Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. She also leads the Lviv region department of the Ukrainian Gastroenterology Association. As an active researcher, Dr. Kvit frequently contributes to international conferences and has numerous publications focused on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and related conditions.

Molecular biologist by training, currently working at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Department of General Biochemistry, Krakow, Poland. Education: postdoctoral training in the “Inflammation” research group led by Miguel Soares at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, PhD studies at the Jagiellonian University. Research interest: gut-liver axis, modulation od microbiome, liver diseases, particularly autoimmune diseases and NAFLD. Analysis of RNases function in liver homeostasis, fibrosis and NASH development. Currently I am investigating a role of RNase MCPIP1 in the cholangiocytes biology.