Dr. Radoslava Emilova is an associate professor of Immunology at the National Reference Laboratory of Immunology, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD), Sofia, Bulgaria. She obtained a PhD in Human & Animal Physiology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2014. Before joining NCIPD, Dr. Emilova was a biologist at the University Pediatric Hospital in Sofia from 2005 to 2022. Her current research interests include antiretroviral treatment, immune restoration, viral suppression, immune exhaustion and senescence, mitochondrial dysfunction, gene expression, and HIV.