Dr. Tanya Dimova

Dr. Tanya Dimova has defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Cellular immunity during epitheliochorial type of placenta formation” in IBIR 2008. She occupied a postdoc position for 3 years at the Institute for Medical Immunology, ULB, Brussels, Belgium. Between 2005 and 2007, she won scholarships from Swedish Institute and Norland Cancer Foundation in Sweden for 1 and half year in the Dept for Clinical Immunology, Medical Faculty, Umea University in Sweden. In 2018, Dr. Dimova was awarded with Fulbright stipend and invited as visiting scholar in the lab of Dr. Gil Mor, Dept of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reprod. Sci, School of Medicine, Yale University, USA for 5 months. Her interests are in the field of Reproductive Immunology: gamma/delta T-cell immunity, γδ T cells in successful human pregnancy and γδ T-cell immunity in placentobiome of pregnant BCG-vaccinated women, 3D modeling of human implantation maternal immune response during both non-invasive and invasive types and implantation. Membership: Bulgarian society of Immunology, European federation of Immunological societies, European Socity for Reproductive Immunology, American Society of Reproductive Immunology.