Education & Professional Experience

Iva has studied at International School for Advanced Studies (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy in Genetics between 1993 and 1997, then at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria in Biotechnology.

Iva worked for Applied StemCell, Inc. as Principal Scientist between May 2016 and May 2020, for UC Riverside as UCR Stem Cell Core Manager between 2013 and 2015, for UC San Diego as Assistant /Associate Project Scientist between 2006 and 2012, for Geron as Scientist between 2004 and 2005, for Washington University School of Medicine as Postoctoral trainee between 2002 and 2004, for Washington University School of Medicine as Research Associate between 1999 and 2001, for Harvard University as Visiting Scientist between 1998 and 1999, for ICGEB as Research Scientist between 1997 and 1998.

 Skills & Competences

Iva has the following skills : Cell Culture, Western Blotting, Life Sciences, Pancreas, Molecular Cloning, Cell Biology, Stem Cell Research, Confocal Microscopy, qPCR, Biochemistry, Fluorescence Microscopy, In Vitro, Molecular Biology, Cell, RT-PCR, Systems Biology, Adult Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Immunocytochemistry, Immunofluorescence.

Iva graduated from the following courses : Introduction to Programing with MATLAB, Bioinformatics, Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Workshop, Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology.

Iva speaks the following languages : Bulgarian, Italian, English, Russian.