Ganka Y. Bekyarova, is a professor at the Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov University, Burgas. She graduated from the Medical Academy Sofia and received her M.D. degree in 1977. From 1980 to 1981, she was an assistant, senior assistant, and then assistant professor in the Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University Varna. In 1990, she became a doctor of medicine, in 2014, a doctor of medical sciences, and in 2016, a professor. The scientific interests of Prof. G. Bekyarova are in the fields of pathophysiology of cellular damage during oxidative stress, systemic responses to tissue injury (trauma), endothelial dysfunction, vascular oxidative stress, and cardiometabolic risk. She has over 100 publications in foreign and national scientific journals. Her scientific works have been cited more than 500 times in scientific literature worldwide. She is a member of the Bulgarian Physiological Society, European Physiological Society (FEPS), ISP – International Society of Pathophysiology, Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian Medical Association.