YEREVAN, MARCH 31, ARMENPRESS. Sargis Aghayan, an alumnus of Photon college in Gyumri, who was keen on math and physics, entered the Department of Biophysics at Yerevan State University in order to specialize in bioinformatics, but a different career path was meant for him. Due to scarcity in the number of entrants, the Department of Bioinformatics didn’t actually open, so Sargis had to continue with biophysics. Later on, he was offered to do his PhD in the Institute of Zoology in the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and do research aimed at the varieties and prevalence of parasites, as well as parasite-host relationships. Participation in an international Armenian-Portuguese PhD program appeared to be a turning point in Sargis’s career, paving the way for his further success.