DEPARTMENT "PHARMACOLOGY, PHARMACOTHERAPY AND TOXICOLOGY"
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Georgi Tzvetanov Momekov, PhD, DSc
Tel.: (+359-2) 9236-582
E-mail: gmomekov@pharmfac.mu-sofia.bg
Brief History
Up to 1973 instruction in pharmacology was carried out by the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine at the Higher Institute of Medicine. In 1968 Prof. Tz. Stoichev, M.D., started a regular course on drug toxicology at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Later a practicum was added to the course.
In 1973 the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Faculty of Pharmacy was founded and headed by Prof. Dushka Staneva-Stoicheva, M.D., Ph.D.
In the years 1986-91 the department was part of the Department of Pharmacology at the Research Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the Medical Academy. Since 1991 this department has become a separate unit again, as a department at the Faculty of Pharmacy, with Prof. Dr. Margarita Karaivanova, D.Sc., as its head. Assoc. Prof. Nikolai Danchev, M.D., Ph.D., was elected in 2000 for head of the department.
Staff
Subjects and duration of Courses
Core Subjects:
- Pharmacology and Toxicology VI-VIII semesters
(Lectures – 105 h, seminars and practical workshops – 135 h);
Courses are offered at:
- Undergraduate level;
- Postgraduate level.
Experimental Laboratories:
- Toxicology and Drug Metabolism – 1;
- Neuro- and Psycho-pharmacology – 1;
- Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparations – 1;
- Experimental Chemotherapy – 1.
Main fields of Research:
- Behavioral and Biochemical Neuro- and Psycho-pharmacology;
- Experimental Chemotherapy and Cell Protection;
- Cardiovascular Pharmacology;
- Pharmacology of the Smooth Muscles;
- Drug Toxicology and Drug Metabolism;
- Hepatotoxicity and Hepatoprotection;
- Pharmacokinetics.
75 YEARS OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION - 66 YEARS OF FACULTY OF PHARMACEUTICALS OF MU-SOFIA
CONTACTS
Faculty of Pharmacy
Dunabe Street №2
Sofia 1000