Zhasmina Mihaylova received her MD from the Medical University of Sofia in 1991 and her PhD in 2002. She specialised in internal medicine at the Medical University of Sofia and medical oncology at the National Cancer Center in Sofia. She held an ESMO fellowship for one year, followed by an AUCC fellowship in Perugia, Italy. She was appointed assistant professor at the Military Medical Academy in 2012 and professor in 2019. She served as head of the Medical Oncology Department from 2009 to 2019, and has been head of the Clinic of Medical Oncology since 2019. From 2009 to 2015, she was the Bulgarian representative at ESMO. She leads three research projects on translational research in liquid biopsy and metastatic colorectal and lung cancer, and on re-challenge approaches in metastatic disease.