Milka Nashar is a Doctor of Pharmacology, specialist in Biochemistry, associate professor in Biochemistry and a head of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular medicine and Nutrigenomics, at the Medical University – Varna, Bulgaria. The focus of her research is on biochemistry, molecular biology, nutrigenomics, and functional foods. Her research interests are in the field of biological activity of Bulgarian medicinal plants, identification of biologically active compounds as candidates for new medicines, functional foods and food supplements, effect of sulfur-containing mineral waters on human metabolism and research of potential prognostic and diagnostic molecular-biological markers for neuroprotection. She has more than 50 scientific publications in the field and two PhD students.