Deyana G. Vankova is an associated professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine and Nutrigenomics at the Medical University, Varna, Bulgaria. She graduated from Sofia University with her bachelor's (2002) and master's (2004) in molecular biology. She has obtained a PhD in biochemistry for her research on polymorphisms of certain genes linked to obesity in a Bulgarian sample. She specialized in biochemistry, and her main scientific interests involved studying the role of certain genetic factors related to socially significant diseases; nutrigenomics; oxidative stress; and the antioxidant defenses of cells. She has more than 20 publications, and has participated in many projects funded by local, national, and European institutions.