Vassya Stefanova Bankova ( bg, Вася Стефанова Банкова, Vasya Stefanova Bankova; born 1954, in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
) is a Bulgarian chemist and a president of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society, Correspondent Member of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; bg, Българска академия на науките, ''Balgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated ''БАН'') is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869.
The Academy ...
since 2014. Bankova is a professor and Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also an honorary professor on the
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University. She is known as a
propolis
Propolis or bee glue is a resinous mixture that honey bees produce by mixing saliva and beeswax with exudate gathered from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources. It is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the beehive. Pro ...
expert.
She graduated from the
in 1977.
She obtained her PhD at the IOCCP in 1990,
and obtained her degree of
Doktor nauk
Doctor of Sciences ( rus, доктор наук, p=ˈdoktər nɐˈuk, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; uk, доктор наук; bg, доктор на науките; be, доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russi ...
(DSc.) from the same institute in 2000.
In 2005 she was promoted to a Full Professor at the IOCCP.
Since 2009, the Chief of the IOCCP Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of ''
Chemistry Central
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Journal''.
Works
*V. Bankova. Chemical diversity of propolis and the problem of standardization.
J. Ethnopharmacol. 100 (1-2), 114—117 (2005).
*V. Bankova, B. Trusheva., M.Popova. New developments in propolis chemical diversity studies (since 2000) In: N. Orsolich & I. Basic (Eds), Scientific Evidence of Use of Propolis in Ethnomedicine, 1-13, Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, 2008.
*V. Bankova, B. Trusheva. Chemical profiles of different propolis types in relation to their biological activity. In: T. Farooki and A. Farooki, Eds., Beneficial effects of propolis on human health and chronic diseases.
Nova Science Publishers
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, New York. 2013.
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CVProf. Vassya Bankova, PhD, DSc*
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1954 births
20th-century Bulgarian scientists
21st-century Bulgarian scientists
20th-century chemists
21st-century chemists
Bulgarian chemists
Bulgarian women chemists
Corresponding Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Sofia
Academic staff of Sofia University
Apitherapists
Living people