{"id":48830,"date":"2024-03-07T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=48830"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:56:45","slug":"success-stories-of-bulgarian-scientists-in-the-pasteur-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=48830&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Success stories of Bulgarian scientists in the Pasteur Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSC_0041-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48812 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSC_0041-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A solemn celebration dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the founding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/microbio.bas.bg\/\">Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology &#8211; BAS<\/a> (IMicB) and to the 20th anniversary of its membership in the Pasteur network was held on 7 March at the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The event was opened by Prof. Penka Petrova, Director of IMicB, with a presentation on the Institute&#8217;s successes, vision and strategy for its development and its place in the Pasteur network. Dr. Cecilia Castillo, responsible for the regional and strategic development of the Pasteur Network in the Euro-Mediterranean region, welcomed the audience and presented the perspectives and directions for the development of the Network as well as opportunities for cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8222;Success stories of Bulgarian scientists in the Pasteur network&#8220; session, presentations were given by scientists who had been on exchange in different institutes.<\/p>\n<p>Assoc. Prof. Violeta Valcheva, PhD, Head of the &#8222;Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria&#8220; Laboratory, Department of Infectious Microbiology, presented <strong>&#8222;Challenges in the Pasteur Network and the Benefits of Scientific Collaboration&#8220;.<\/strong> Asst. Prof. Iliyan Manoylov, PhD, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Department of Immunology, presented <strong>&#8222;Vaccine Design and Generation of New Experimental Models&#8220;<\/strong> and Asst. Prof. Milena Leseva, PhD, Laboratory of Experimental Immunotherapy, Department of Immunology &#8211; <strong>&#8222;Support for scientific excellence and career <\/strong><strong>growth<\/strong><strong> through ACIP collaborations&#8220;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Annual Award for Significant Scientific Achievements for 2024 of the Scientific Council of the &#8222;Stephan Angeloff&#8220; Institute of Microbiology<\/strong> was awarded to the team: MARTINA SAVOVA, LILIYA MIHAYLOVA, MILEN GEORGIEV, &#8222;Metabolomics&#8220; Laboratory, &#8222;Biotechnology&#8220; Department, &#8222;Stephan Angeloff&#8220; Institute of Microbiology, BAS, for the publication: Savova, M.S., Mihaylova, L.V., Tews, D., Wabitsch, M., Georgiev, M.I. Targeting PI3K\/AKT signaling pathway in obesity. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, 2023 vol. 159, 114244.<\/p>\n<p>The award was presented by the Institute&#8217;s Director, Prof. Penka Petrova.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The annual prize for the best work of a young microbiologist of the Ste<\/strong><strong>ph<\/strong><strong>an Angeloff Foundation was awarded to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asst. Nikola Ralchev, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Department of Immunology, IMicB, for the publication: Ralchev Ralchev, N., Lyubenova Bradyanova, S., Valerieva Doneva, Y., Mihaylova, N., Vikentieva Elefterova-Florova, E., Ivanov Tchorbanov, A., \u2026 &amp; Fagone, P. (2023). Exploring the Role of CD74 and D-Dopachrome Tautomerase in COVID-19: Insights from Transcriptomic and Serum Analyses. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(15), 5037.<\/p>\n<p>Two incentive awards were also presented to:<\/p>\n<p>Asst. Petya Dimitrova Dimitrova; Laboratory of Cell Microbiology, Department of General Microbiology, IMicB, for publication: and to Asst. P.D.; Damyanova, T.; Paunova-Krasteva, T. Chromobacterium Violaceum: A Model for Evaluating the Anti-Quorum Sensing Activities of Plant Substances. Sci. Pharm. 2023, 91, 33.<\/p>\n<p>Preslava Mihaylova Hristova, PhD &#8211; Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Medical Genetics, Medical University &#8211; Pleven for publication: Hristova PM, Nankov VM, Hristov IG, Trifonov SV, Alexandrova AS, Hitkova HY. Gut colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci among patients with hematologic malignancies. Gut Pathog. 2023 Mar 9;15(1):12.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were presented by Corr. Memb. 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BAS (IMicB) and to the 20th anniversary of its membership in the Pasteur network was held on 7 March at the Institute. The event was opened by Prof. Penka Petrova, Director of IMicB, with a presentation on the Institute&#8217;s successes, vision and strategy for its development and its place in the Pasteur network. Dr. Cecilia Castillo, responsible for the regional and strategic development of the Pasteur Network in the Euro-Mediterranean region, welcomed the audience and presented the perspectives and directions for the development of the Network as well as opportunities for cooperation. In the &#8222;Success stories of Bulgarian scientists in the Pasteur network&#8220; session, presentations were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=48830&#038;lang=en\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1769,757],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48832,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830\/revisions\/48832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}