Dr. Dzhambazov is a Professor in Cell Biology at the Plovdiv University (Bulgaria). He is an expert in the field of autoimmune diseases and performs translational research using cell cultures and different animal models. Also, has a great experience in the field of in vitro cyto- and genotoxicology. Balik Dzhambazov completed his BSc and MSc degree in Biology at the Plovdiv University and obtained his PhD in 2001. Then he moved to the Medical Faculty at Lund University (Sweden) for a postdoc with Prof. Rikard Holmdahl where he spent 4 years developing his interest in the field of the autoimmunity and related diseases. One year after his habilitation (2008) as an Associate Professor in Cell Biology at the Plovdiv University, Dr. Dzhambazov returned in the group of Prof. Holmdahl at the Medical Inflammation Research, Karolinska Institute (Sweden) as a senior researcher. Dr. Dzhambazov became Professor in Cell Biology at the Plovdiv University in 2012. Currently, several PhD students are working under his supervision and he teaches at both undergraduate and graduate level at the Department of Developmental Biology (Plovdiv University). Also, Prof. Dzhambazov is the coordinator for the MSc program in Biodiagnostics at the Faculty of Biology.