CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:                                                Ivan Gueorguiev Ivanov

Born:                                                  August 19, 1944, Bulgaria

Nationality:                                        Bulgarian

Marital Status:                                   Married (two children)

Languages:                                        English and Russian (spoken and written)

Permanent address:                          6 Pastirna St., Sofia 1517, Bulgaria

Business address:                             Institute of Molecular Biology,

                                                           Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria

Phone:                                                (+359 2) 845 84 14 (home);

Phone/Fax:                                        (+359 2) 73 62 27; 72 35 07

E-mail:                                                iivanov@bio21.bas.bg

Present position:                                Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Head of Department of Gene Regulations.

Education:                                          1962 -Polytechnic School, Sofia

                                                           1967 – MS in Organic Chemistry from the Faculty of

                                                           Chemistry, University of Sofia.

Scientific degrees:                             1974 - Ph.D. in Biochemistry

                                                           1974 - Research associate

                                                           1983 - Associate Professor

                                                           1988 - D.Sc. in Molecular Biology

                                                           1989 – Professor

                                                           2004 – Correspondent Member of BAS

Positions held:                                   1974 -1982 -    Research Associate, Institute of Biochemistry, BAS

                                                           1983-1988 - Associate Professor and Head of Department, Institute of Molecular Biology

                                                           1989 (continue) - Professor and Head of Department, Institute of Molecular Biology

                                                           1990 (continue) - Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, University of Chemical Technology, Sofia

                                                           1990-1997 – Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Canada (every first term of the year)

                                                           1998-2003 - Deputy Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, BAS

                                                           2003 – Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, BAS

Post-doctoral training:                       1976 - Institute of Biochemistry, Prague

                                                           1979 – Institute of Biochem., Szeged, Hungary

                                                           1980 - Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow

                                                           1983 - Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

                                                           1986 - Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Teaching activities:                           1983-1989 - Lectures on “Genetic Engineering”, Faculty of Biology, University of Sofia

                                                           1989 (continue) - Lectures at the University of Chemical Technology and Metellurgy:

-         “General Biochemistry”

-         “Recombinant DNA technology”

-         “Molecular Biology”

Supervision of graduate students:   1983-2004 - 24 Ph.D. and 35 MS students

Research scope:                                Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation; gene synthesis; gene expression in bacteria; catalytic RNA; mechanisms of action of biologically active proteins; glycation of proteins; bioinformatics

Research activity (publications):      peer reviewed research papers:             >140

                                                           impact factor:                                       >200

                                                           citations:                                              >400

                                                           popular scientific papers:                           50

                                                           patents:                                                   20

                                                           books:                                                       6

Membership, Councils and

Comissions:                          - Scientific Council of the Institute of Molecular

                                                Biology

- Scientific council of the Agrobioinstitute

- Scientific Council of Molecular Biology,

  Biophysics and Biochemistry (national)

                                                           - UNESCO Commission for Science (national)

                                                           - National Commission for Accreditation;

                                                           - New York Academy of Sciences

                                                           - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

                                                           - Bulgarian Academy of Medical Sciences

                                                           - European Federation of Biotechnology

                                                      - Bulgarian Society of Biochemistry and

                                                        Biophysics (President since 2001)