Elena V. Batrakova was born in Moscow, USSR in 1960 and graduated with M.S. degree in chemistry from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in 1983.  In 1987 she obtained Ph.D. in Polymer chemistry at the Department of Polymers, MSU, Russia. She is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Batrakova’s aim is to extend and intensify the research in the developing of new drug delivery polymer-based systems for the chemotherapy and CNS disorders. The most successful results were obtained with thriblock copolymers, Pluronics. Another part of her research is associated with applications of polymers in drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier.