Prof. Rumiana Tzoneva

Prof. Rumiana Tzoneva is head of the Transmembrane Signalling Laboratory at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He received his Master’s degree in Molecular and Functional Biology at the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” (SU) in 1988 and completed his PhD studies in Biotechnology and Biomaterials at the Potsdam University in 2003. His research areas include the study of the biocompatibility of polymeric materials for the purposes of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, antitumor treatment involving new antitumor lipids, cytotoxicity, metastases, apoptosis, migration, cell cycles, and the pathogenesis of angiogenesis. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Annals of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Trends in Cancer Research and Chemotherapy, and of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering.