Tatyana Vlaykova
Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Biography
Tatyana Vlaykova is a professor in medical biochemistry in Medical Faculty, Trakia University, Stara Zagora and Medical University, Plovdiv. She obtained a PhD degree in Department of Oncology, Medical Faculty, Turku University, Turku, Finland, focusing on tumor agiogenesis, apoptosis and proliferation markers as predictive and prognostic factors of skin metastatic melanoma. Later she extended her interest and expertise in analyzing the risk and prognostic factors in colorectal cancer and of chronic inflammatory lung diseases as COPD and bronchial asthma. In those latter field she has been studying the genetic predisposition factors for COPD as polymorphisms in the genes encoding xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes of GST family, cytokines (IL-6, IL-1B, TNF-a, IL-10, IL-1Ra) and several matrix metalloproteinases. She is a supervisor of six PhD students and tutor of the research work of many undergraduate students in medicine.