Prof. Angel. S. Galabov's 80 Anniversary Celebration

The Celebration of the 80th anniversary of Academician Angel Galabov will be held at 10.00 am on February 15, 2019,  in the"Prof. Marin Drinov " Hall - BAS (Sofia," November 15, "№1) . Academician Angel S. Galabov is a world-renowned Bulgarian scientist, a virologist, a doctor of medical sciences, a  professor of Virology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Forestry, at the Faculty of Biology of "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia ", Medical Faculty of the Medical University in Sofia and New Bulgarian University.  He has been an expert on viral infections of the World Health Organization since 1983. He is a member of the International Organization for Cell Research, the International Society for Antiviral Research, the American Association of Microbiology, the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, the Executive Office of the Pasteur Institutes and others.  He founded the Balkan Society of Microbiology in 1999 and was its first chairman.  With his 39 inventories on antivirals and biological response modifiers, he was recorded in the Golden Book of Inventors in Bulgaria in 2003. He is the author of over 275 scientific papers, mainly in the field of antivirals. He was a Head of the Department of Virology (1988-2011)  and a Director at the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 2011.  He was elected as an associate member (corresponding member) in 2004 and became a regular member (academician) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2008. Prof. Angel S. Galabov, with his expertise, devotion and professionalism, has made a significant contribution to the development of Bulgarian microbiology and virology in the years of transition. At present, He  continues working for the high scientific prestige of the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a national and regional center of microbiological research and its successful integration into the European Research Area.