Department of Immunology

 

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Head of Department:
Prof. Maria Nikolova, MD, DSc - clinical immunologist
phone: +359 2 9446999/ 240

The Immunology Department of performs various diagnostic, reference and research activities related to the evaluation of humoral and cellular immune response, and the possibilities for its modulation. The department is an excellent training base for graduate and post-graduate students, as well as for specialization and continuous education of medical doctors and biologists in the field of clinical and laboratory immunology. Since the establishment of the Department over 50 PhD theses have been successfully completed here, in two PhD programs "Immunology” and "Immunopathology and Allergology".

The Immunology Department comprises the National Reference Laboratory of Immunology (NRLI) and the Allergy Outpatients’ Service. The excellent methodological and technical equipment of the laboratory guarantees a high level of research and clinical activities. All routinely offered methods have been certified by the Bulgarian Accreditation Service in accordance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2001.   NRLI participates in several international programs for external quality control in immunology performs and organizes similar programs for external quality control of clinical immunology laboratories in the country. Since 2009, a Center for Analytical Cytometry has been created at the Department of Immunology as an open core facility offering a wide range of last generation methods for cell analysis, for the needs of fundamental and applied research and clinical studies, as well as expertise, and trainings on various aspects of analytical cytometry for beginners and advanced researchers.

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