Vassya Bankova

Dr. Vassya Bankova is currently working as Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Sofia, Bulgaria. She has completed her PhD in Natural Product Chemistry from same Institute. Her area of research interest focuses on Natural Product Chemistry: search for new biologically active natural compounds (mainly antibacterial, antiviral and antioxidant), using modern chromatographic and spectral methods, isolation, structural elucidation, analysis of bioactive secondary metabolites, developing of modern reliable methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the active components in medicinal plants. She also served as Faculty member of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Bandeirante University, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Institute of Molecules of Biological Interest, CNR, Naples, Italy. She is member of Bulgarian Society for Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, International Honey Commission, and honorary member of the Scientific Committee of the Greek Scientific Apitherapy Center. Currently she is working on 2 research projects. She has published 15 research articles in journals contributed as author/co-author.