Dr. Borislava Tsafarova is Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Special Bacterial Pathogens at the National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD), Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology (2024), focused on microbiological, molecular, and electron-microscopic methods for studying the etiology of sarcoidosis . Her research interests cover diagnostic microbiology, molecular methods (PCR, WGS, metagenomics), human microbiome, in particular blood microbiome in health and disease, and microscopy. She has contributed to several national research projects, including Exploring the Unknown Etiology of Sarcoidosis (National Science Program “VIHREN”), Caves as Reservoirs of New and Re-emerging Zoonoses, and Formation and Structural Analysis of Erythrocyte Granular Bodies. Dr. Tsafarova has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in international journals, including Vaccines, Microorganisms, and Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. She is a member of the Bulgarian Association of Microbiologists and the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria.