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1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Tsolmon BILEGTSAIKHAN
Current position: Vice President for Research and International Affairs of Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS)
Contact address: Sukhbaatar District, S.Zorig street, Ulaanbaatar 14210
Phone: 976-99889925
Email: bilegtsaikhan@mnums.edu.mn
2. EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
October 2020
Associate Professor (Assoc. Prof.)
Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS)
April 2011 – March 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Japan
Mentor: Prof. T. Yokochi
Title: A toll-like receptor 2 ligand, Pam3CSK4, augments interferon-γ-induced nitric oxide production via a physical association between MyD88 and IFN-γ receptor in vascular endothelial cells.
October 2006 – June 2009
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, School of Biomedicine, Health Sciences University, Mongolia (HSUM)
Mentors: Prof. B. Munkhbat, Prof. N. Munkhtuvshin, Prof. D. Baasanjav
Title: Peripheral Myelin Protein 22 Duplication in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 A Disease.
September 2003 – March 2005
Clinical Pathologist/Laboratory Technologist (C.P.)
Postgraduate Institute, HSUM
September 1997 – 2003
Degree of Medical Doctor (M.D.)
School of Medicine, HSUM
3. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 2024
- Vice President for Research and International Affairs of MNUMS
September 2023 – January 2024
- Head of Department of Health Research, Graduate School, MNUMS
September 2021 – May 2023
- General Director of National Center for Communicable Disease, NCCD, Mongolia
March 2020 – September 2021
- Deputy Director of Second State Central Hospital, SSCH, Mongolia
October 2019 – March 2020
- Lecturer of Department of Biochemistry, MNUMS, Mongolia
October 2014 – October 2019
- Head and Specialist of Core Laboratory,
- Science and Technology Center, MNUMS, Mongolia
October 2013 – September 2014
- Post-Doctoral Fellow
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma, USA
- Mentor: Dr. Tanaka Takemi
- Title: The therapeutic effect of thioaptamer against E-selectin, ESTA on the breast tumor metastasis in the MMTV-pyMT transgenic mouse model.
December 2010 – April 2011
- Foreign Visiting Researcher
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Japan
- Mentor: Prof. Takashi Yokochi
- Title: Lipopolysaccharide prevents valproic acid-induced apoptosis via activation of nuclear factor-κB and inhibition of p53 activation.
June 2003 – December 2010
- Scientific Researcher
- Central Scientific Research Laboratory, Institute of Medical Sciences, Mongolia (IMSM)
- Mentors: Prof. B. Munkhbat, Prof. N. Munkhtuvshin
- Title: Genome wide association study for susceptibility loci of human normal traits (body height) and common complex disease (psoriasis vulgaris).
4. RESEARCH INTEREST
Immunization, Signal Transduction, Innate Immunity, Cancer Biology Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics
5. MAIN PROJECTS
- Scientific projects were focused on Immunization, Signal Transduction, Innate Immunity, Cancer Biology Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics
6. AWARDS/ GRANTS
- 2015 Grant of postdoctoral research, Ministry of Education Culture and Science of Mongolia (MECS).
- 2009 Pioneer health young scientist, 1st place “Best presentation award”. “Clinical, electrophysiological and molecular genetic aspects of the CMT1A disease”, Scientific conference: Khurel Togoot-2009, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS), Ministry of Education Culture and Science of Mongolia (MECS).
7. PUBLICATIONS
- Peer reviewed full articles 76(22+54)
- Presentations 132(41+91)
- Reports of completed research work 20
- Recommendations, guidelines and books 12
- Supervised students for bachelor, master, and PhD degrees 15+5
- Intellectual properties, patents, standards 55