First person – Igor Limaev

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An interview with Igor Limaev, a research pathologist in Moscow, published in 2026 in the journal Biology Open. The journal's First Person series speaks with first authors of selected papers about their careers. His paper profiled skeletal muscle in mice carrying a gene fault that causes dysferlinopathy, a muscle-wasting disease, at the stage when the illness first shows.

Limaev did that research as an undergraduate in a lab at Kazan Federal University and now studies rare muscle diseases at a national surgery research center in Moscow. He explains that he became a pathologist out of a childhood drive to organize knowledge into one logical system, calling pathology the trunk from which other medical sciences grow. He chose muscle disease because the field is still largely uncharted. The interview pairs his personal path with a plain account of the muscle study.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13602367