Associate Professor Dimirina Zheleva-Dimitrova, PhD has graduated Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University-Sofia in 2002.
In 2003, she started as a PhD student at the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, since 2006- Assist. Prof., and since 2018 she is Associate Professor in the same department.
Her PhD thesis is on scientific specialty „Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry” entitled “Phenolic compounds in species from genus Hypericum L. (Guttiferae)”.
Assoc. Prof. Dimitrina Zheleva has specializations in “Medicinal plants and Natural Products” and “Toxicology and toxicological analysis”, and master degrees “Public Health and Health Management”, obtained from MU-Sofia and “Biotechnologies” in UCTM Sofia.
Currently, she is associate professor at the Department of Pharmacognosy.
She participates in the teaching program “Pharmaceutical botany” in Bulgarian and English languages, scientific supervisor of students.
Her scientific research competence is in the field of the following directions of the pharmaceutical science and practice: phytochemistry, metabolomics, HPLC, mass spectrometry, chemophenetics, screening methods for the determination of antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activity, phytopharmacology.
She is an author of 120 scientific publications, and more than 1200 citations in indexed journals in Scopus of Elsevier, h-index 24 (Scopus) 22 (Web of Science).
She is an expert in the field of medicinal plants, phytochemistry, chromatography, metabolic profiling, phytopharmacology, nutrition and dietetics, healthy nutrition and sports.
She is scientific supervisor of more than 7 and participates in more than 40 scientific projects funded by Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia, The Bulgarian National Science Fund, University Agency of Francophonie and the European Union-NextGenerationEU.
Guest editor of the scientific journal Plants, Molecules (MDPI), and Biochemical systematics and ecology (Elsevier).
Reviewer of scientific journals: Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Molecules, Plants, Natural product research, Pharmacia, Foods, Phytochemistry Letters etc.
Member of: AMAPEC; Bulgarian Phytochemical Association; The Balkan Medical Union; Scientific Society of Pharmacy; Bulgarian Society of Nutrition and Dietetics; Bulgarian Toxicological Society; EuroTox
Participant in the Erasmus+ Program in Nancy (France), Durban (South Africa), Chieti (Italy).
She speaks English, French and Russian.

PROJECTS
1. Grant КП-06-Rila/5 16.12.2024, National Science Fund, Competitions for financial support for bilateral projects Bulgaria-France Program Rila-2024, (Medical University-Sofia, Faculty of Pharmacy and University of Lorraine, Nancy). Antineoplastic and antimicrobial effects of plant species from the families Apiaceae and Caryophyllaceae”. Scientific supervisors: Assoc. Prof. D. Zheleva-Dimitrova (Bulgaria) and Prof. O. Joubert (France).
2. Grant AUF 2024 DRECO 9581, the University Agency of Francophonie (AUF) “Nutriceuticals: a protective, innovative approach in metabolic disorders” (NAPETOM). AUF (Agence universitaire de francophonie) RESCI-ECO project – 2024-2025. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. R. Gevrenova, Ph D, D.Sci.
3. MUS_3.1_19 PHOENIX-NCD, project BG-RRP-2.004-0004-C01; European Union-NextGenerationEU, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria, “Strategic research and innovation program for development of Medical University – Sofia“.”Pharmacological study of natural products as multitarget therapeutic modalities in experimental models of non-communicable diseases”. Scientific supervisor: Prof. G. Momekov PhD, D.Sci.
4. Grant 70-25-40/23.01.2023, National Program “Polar Research 2022-2025” Competition for funding polar scientific research – 2022. “Biotechnological approach for obtaining biologically active molecules from Antarctic yeast”. Scientific supervisor: Senior Asst. Prof. Dr. S. Rusinova-Videva.
5. Grant КП-06 Н63/11/ 14.12.2022 г. National Science Fund, Competition for funding of basic scientific research – 2022 “Neuropharmacological studies of newly synthesized sulfanyl hydrazones and melatonin derivatives with cholinesterase inhibitory activity in models of Alzheimer’s disease and melatonin deficiency”. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Violina Stoyanova, Ph.D.
6. Grant № Д-156/14.06.2022. Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. A taxonomic study of Gypsophila perfoliata L. (Caryophyllaceae) sensu lato. Scientific supervisor: Assist. Prof. V. Balabanova PhD.
7. Grant № Д-321/2022. Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. Nutraceutical potential of tansy (Tanacetum balsamita L.) and alpine cichory (Cicerbita alpina (L.) Wallr.) for influencing metabolic syndrome: in vitro and in vivo studies. Assoc. Prof. D. Zheleva-Dimitrova PhD.
8. Grant КП-06-Rila/5 15.12.2021, National Science Fund, Competitions for financial support for bilateral projects Bulgaria-France Program Rila-2021, (Medical University-Sofia, Faculty of Pharmacy and University of Lorraine, Nancy). “Study of antineoplastic potential of extracts from medicinal plants from Southeastern Europe through toxicogenomics”. Scientific supervisors: Assoc. Prof. R. Gevrenova (Bulgaria) and Prof. O. Joubert (France).
9. Grant № Д-102/2021, Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. Chemophenetic aspects in the Senecioneae tribe (Asteraceae): combination of morphometric and phytochemical analyzes in searching of specialized natural products. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. D. Zheleva-Dimitrova PhD.
10. Grant № Д-99 от 2021, Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. LC-MS and GC-MS analyses of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in complex matrices. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Y. Voynikov PhD.
11. Grant № Д-119/2020, Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. Integrated strategy for the identification of secondary metabolites based on ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to high performance mass spectrometry. Application in Rhaponticoides iconiensis (Hub.-Mor.) M.V.Agab. & Greuter (Asteraceae). Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. D. Zheleva-Dimitrova PhD.
12. Grant № Д-123/2020, Medical Science Council, MU-Sofia. UPLC-HRMS analyses of secondary metabolites in aqueous alcoholic extracts of aerial parts of the plant Portulaca oleracea L. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Y. Voynikov PhD.

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