Prof. Dr. Krasimira Todorova-Hairabedyan from the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction of BAS was awarded in the competition of the Patent Office and the Union of Inventors in Bulgaria "Inventor of the Year" 2021, category "Chemistry and Biotechnology". The awards were presented at an official ceremony held on December 8. Prof. Todorova-Hairabedyan participated with the invention METHOD AND KIT FOR DETECTION OF ONCOFUSION PROTEIN in team with Prof. Soren Hairabedyan. A method for the detection of oncofusion protein was developed that represents a combination of immunological and molecular biological method, allowing the recognition of the most common and with the highest clinical relevance functionally fit oncofusion protein in prostate cancer - TMPRSS2-ERG. The proposed solution detects at the protein level the two distinct [...]

The Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBPhBME) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) has established a tradition of holding a Youth Scientific Session “Biomedicine and Quality of Life” every two years. The scientific session will be held for the third time, online, on 2-3 December 2021. […]

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) includes dozens of the most prominent Bulgarian clinicians, biologists, immunologists, virologists, geneticists, mathematicians and other diverse specialists who are involved in the problems of the global pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. With their research work and active participation in various media presentations, where they share the most up-to-date and objective data on the pandemic, they contribute a lot to the proper awareness of the public and to the scientifically based guidelines for the fight against coronavirus. With all this in mind, we consider it necessary to express our opinion on the forthcoming vaccination campaign against coronavirus infection, as a result of the analysis of the existing data from the world literature and current practice. […]

The members of the Department of Medical Sciences at BAS, which includes some of the most prominent specialists in the field of medicine and healthcare, are extremely concerned about the threatening development of the coronavirus pandemic in Bulgaria and around the world. More than 43 million people are already infected in the world and over 1.2 million have died; in our country – over 43 000 are infected of which nearly 2 000 are health workers, over 2 200 are in hospital, nearly 1 150 have died. These values ​​are growing daily and forecasts are really very alarming, especially considering the upcoming flu epidemic at the end of the year. The negative impact of the pandemic is huge not only on human health but also on the social and [...]

President Rumen Radev visited the Institute of Molecular Biology and the Institute of Microbiology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Scientists from four institutes of BAS from the research division “Biomedicine and Quality of Life” presented their research and current scientific developments. The President of BAS – Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, and the Scientific Secretary-General, Prof. Evdokia Pasheva, took part in the meeting. […]