Staff

  • Nikolay T. Tzvetkov

    Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolay T. Tzvetkov, Head of Department

    CONTACT DETAILS: Acad. G. Bonchev str., bl. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Tel.: +359 2 979 2665 E-Mail: ntzvetkov@bio21.bas.bg URL for web site: https://imb.bas.bg/departments/biochemical-pharmacology-drug-design SHORT INFORMATION: Dr. Nikolay T. Tzvetkov completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry and Photochemistry (Topic: Photoreactions of tricyclic alpha-cyclopropyl ketones: Formation of polyquinanes and analogues ring systems; Promotor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Mattay) at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) in 2004. After his PhD training, Dr. Tzvetkov has obtained an industrial postdoc position at Schwarz Pharma GmbH, Monheim (Germany), following by a project leader position at the University of Bonn (Germany) and UCB Pharma (Belgium). During this time Dr. Tzvetkov has developed a large number of new chemical entities (mostly of them in the area of neurodegenerative diseases) belonging to the new substance classes of aminoxanthines, imidazotriazines, 7-amino-6-azaoxindoles, and more than 12 other sub-classes. Since 2018 Dr. Nikolay T. Tzvetkov is appointed as a Scientific Board member of the Institute of Molecular Biology "Roumen Tsanev", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2019 as a Head of the Biochemical Pharmacology and Drug Design Department.

  • Evgeny Golovinsky

    Acad. Prof. Evgeny Golovinsky, Dsc

  • Tamara Pajpanova

    Assoc. Prof. Tamara Pajpanova, PhD

  • Rumyana Detscheva

    Rumyana Detscheva, PhD

  • Maya G. Georgieva

    Assist. Prof. Maya G. Georgieva, PhD

  • Aneliya A. Balacheva

    Assist. Prof. Aneliya A. Balacheva, PhD

  • Martina I. Peeva

    Martina I. Peeva, PhD student

  • Maria Ponticelli

    Maria Ponticelli, PhD

  • Ivan P. Bogdanov

    Ivan P. Bogdanov, PhD student

  • Violeta Dobreva, Senior laboratory technician

  • Leni Markova, Senior laboratory technician