International track record experienced researchers have returned back to IBIR

Experienced researchers that have developed a career track record in highly esteemed research institutions of US and Europe have returned back to IBIR, to help the Institute scientific development

In regard to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences initiative, and particularly acad. S. Vodenicharov, for the establishing of Bulgarian scientific research diaspora, our former colleagues with scientific track record in US and Europe have been recruited back to the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction.

Dr Stefan Persengiev (DVM, PhD) have 12 years research record in US from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and to the present moment, more than 11 years research career as Senior Scientist in several Nederland research institutions – the Erasmus Medical Center, the UMC Utrecht and lastly the Biomedical Primate Research Centre. His scientific interest are in gene expression regulation, transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of apoptosis in the aging brain, and transcriptional control of cell death mechanisms in hematopoietic system and immune cell malignancies. Dr Persengiev has published more than 43 research papers in highly esteemed scientific journals like PNAS, Genes and Development, Genome Research, EMBO J, RNA, Journal of Nucleic Acids, Nature Precedings, etc.

Dr Dimiter Avtanski, PhD has pre-doctoral training for several years in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, US, later he has defended his PhD thesis at IBIR and then he has spent more than 8 years of post-doctoral training in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Department of Oncology, Breast Cancer Program of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. He has more than 10 research papers in highly esteemed scientific journals including Oncotarget, Molecular Oncology, Molecular Endocrinology, JBC, etc.

Dr Stefan Persengiev and Dr Dimiter Avtanski are joining the task force groups of IBIR on Horizon2020 project development and also the IBIR administration initiated national consortia projects and projects under national operative programs calls “Competitiveness” and “Human Resources”