On December 13, 2023, the official closure of the National Scientific Programme "Innovative Low-toxic Bioactive Agents for Precision Medicine (BioActiveMed)" was held in the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of BAS. The presentation was attended by Corr. Memb. Evdokiya Pasheva - Vice-President of BAS, members of the leadership of BAS, members of AACM and representatives of higher education institutions. Mrs. Vesela Vassileva, State Expert at the Science Directorate, read a congratulatory address on behalf of Prof. Galin Tsokov - Minister of Education and Science. The programme is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science and is focused on conducting research to develop new low-toxic biologically active agents and systems containing extracts from natural sources (plant or animal origin) from Bulgaria for the prevention and support [...]

Innovative biologically active agents for the needs of personalized and preventive medicine were presented at the Fourth Scientific Conference "Innovative Low-Toxic Biologically Active Agents for Precision Medicine", held from 12 to 16 June 2023. The scientific conference was held in the framework of the NRP BioActiveMed, with the leading organisation Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science. More than 50 scientists took part in the scientific forum and presented the results of the interdisciplinary research conducted in seven institutes of BAS and five universities. The presentations were divided into six scientific sessions and one poster session. Results were reported on the development of new biologically active systems containing extracts from natural sources of plant or animal origin [...]

The ,,Roumen Tsanev'' Institute of Molecular Biology at BAS, Rice University (USA) and Institut Curie (France) are the organisers of the fifth international conference "Structure and Function of the Genome" https://genome2023.imb.bas.bg/ which takes place from June 5 to 8, 2023 in Sofia.  The conference is attended by more than 170 participants – both world-renowned scientists from the USA and Europe as well as many young researchers from around the world. The previous two scientific meetings in this series were held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). In recent years, there has been a tremendous interest in understanding genome architecture and its role in the functioning of the organism in normal and pathological conditions. This has been made possible by the advent of technologies that [...]

The 76th anniversary of the founding of the "Stephan Angeloff" Institute of Microbiology of BAS was celebrated on March 7 with a solemn assembly and a scientific session. Special guests were Dr. Rebecca Grace, Executive Director of the Pasteur Network and Mr. Arnaud Bauberot, Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation at the French Embassy in Bulgaria. The director of the institute Prof. Penka Petrova opened the event and presented a plaquette to Dr. Rebecca Grace for her dedication and commitment to the collaboration with the Pasteur Network. An award was also presented to the French Cultural Institute in Bulgaria for supporting scientific activities and promoting good partnership relations. A plaquette for scientific and administrative activity and strengthening of relations in the Pasteur Network was [...]