In the same year, she moved to Kyiv because of her father's business needs, where she entered the pediatric faculty of Bogomolets National Medical University, and graduated in 1963.

From 1996 to the present, Galyna Skibo is the head of the Cytology department of the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Using optical and electron microscopy methods, immunohistochemistry, she also conducted detailed studies of the structural plasticity of nerve cells and brain synapses.

Thus, thanks to her efforts, a laboratory of neurocytology was established at the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1992, which in 1996 became the Department of Cytology.

Galyna Skibo is the author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 2 monographs - "Structural patterns of neuronal development in culture" (1992), "Experimental cerebral ischemia" (2016).

[12] In 2021, Galyna Skibo took part in the educational art project STEM is FEM "Science is she", which aims to promote scientific activities among girls and the destruction of gender stereotypes.