!!Draga Toncheva - Curriculum Vitae
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__CURRENT POSITION(S)__
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*2015 - 2020 Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences\\
*2013 - 2020 President of the Bulgarian Human Genetics and Genomics Society\\
*2019 - 2020 Chief Coordinator of the Expert Council on Medical Genetics, Ministry of Health\\
*2006 - 2020 Scientific Secretary of the Bulgarian Academy of Medicine\\
*2000 - 2020 Head of Department of Medical Genetics, MU Sofia\\
*2010 - 2020 Member of the National Expert Board of Oncology\\
*2016 - 2020 Member the Board of Bulgarian Alliance for Personalized and Precision Medicine
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__MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS__\\
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Scientific Programme Committee of ESHG (2010-2013),  Council of the European Cytogenetic Association (2002-2012), Board of Directors of COST "EUROKUP" (2009-2012), International Schizophrenia Consortium (from 2008), Psychiatric Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) Consortium, Scientific Committee of Aniridia Europe (from 2012), Brainstorm Consortium (2018), International Advisory Board of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (2006)\\
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__ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS - 17 International and 22 National conferences__
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*First and Second Bulgarian-Japanese Symposium (2009/2012)\\
*Annual National Conferences on Oncology and on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs\\
*Balkan Congress of Human Genetics, Plovdiv (2017)\\
*First Balkan Conference on Personalized Medicine, Sofia (2017)\\
*Expert in Multidisciplinary Expert Meeting “In Focus: The Patients with NSCLC”, Antwerp, Belgium (2011) etc.
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__SCIENTIFIC WORK__ \\
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Publications – above 300 (214 publications in Journals with Impact factor), 38 books and monographs, >15900 citations, H-index - 37 (SCOPUS) [https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004062788]\\
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__SUPERVISOR__ \\
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40 Ph.D. students and 52 Master students\\
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__TEACHING ACTIVITIES__  \\
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Lectures of a mandatory course “Genomic Medicine” at the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy, MU-Sofia; Guest Professor of the University of Nis, Serbia (2008 – 2020)\\
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__AWARDS__
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*2006  Honourable plaque for contribution to Tokyo Medical and Dental University \\
*2010 Award for an Acknowledged Scientist in the field of Biomedical Sciences “Pythagoras”, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science\\
*2010 Medal of merit from the Institute Cantacusino, Romania\\
*2019 Honourable plaque from Taipei Medical University\\
*2011  "Signum Laudis" of the Medical University of Varna\\ \\