Prof. Albena Momchilova is head of the Department “Lipid–protein Interactions” at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has specialized at the NIH, Bethesda, USA; Utrecht University, the Netherlands; and Weitzman Institute, Rehovot, Israel, in the fields of membrane biology, lipid metabolism and oxidative stress. Her interests are in the fields of membrane structure and functions under normal and pathological conditions; aging; neurodegenerative diseases; anticancer therapeutic approaches; oncogenesis; mechanisms of action of natural antioxidants; animal models of pathological conditions; respiratory distress syndrome, etc. She is co-author of more than 120 scientific articles and also of monographs titled “Therapeutic plasmapheresis” and “Aferesis terapeutica en Neurologia" in Spanish. She has developed applicable tests in medical practice for analysis of the state of the alveolar surfactant system in newborns.