Stela Dragomanova, Master of Pharmacy, completed her studies at the Medical University - Sofia in 2004. From 2005 to 2010, she served as the head of an open pharmacy. In 2010, following a competitive selection process, she was appointed as a full-time assistant in the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University - Varna. Between 2014 and 2015, she worked as an assistant in the newly established Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the Department of Preclinical and Clinical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Varna. Since 2015, she has held the position of assistant in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, where she served as an administrative assistant from 2016 to 2020 and was promoted to chief assistant in 2021. She is actively involved in research projects funded by the Science Fund (Medical University–Varna) and the Scientific Research Fund (Ministry of Education and Science). In 2017, she obtained a specialization in clinical pharmacy. She defended her dissertation in 2020 on the topic "Pharmacological, toxicological, and neurobiological studies of myrtenal – a bicyclic monoterpenoid of natural origin" as part of the doctoral program in Pharmacology at the Institute of Neurobiology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2024, she successfully defended another dissertation titled "Neuropharmacological study of myrtenal conjugates with aminoadamantane" at MU-Varna. By 2025, she achieved the academic rank of associate professor in the field of "Pharmacology (including pharmacokinetics and chemotherapy)."
Dr. Stela Dragomanova has authored over 30 full-text publications in scientific journals, with 25 appearing in peer-reviewed and indexed journals. She has participated in more than 70 international and national scientific conferences, and in 2015, she received a grant to attend the European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 2025, a review article featuring contributions from a pharmacy student was chosen to be the cover story for a special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology.
Her research interests encompass experimental pharmacology and toxicology, as well as behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology, and neurodegenerative disorders. She serves as a co-author of a university manual focused on pharmacology and toxicology exercises designed for pharmacy students, as well as collections of test questions in pharmacology and various educational resources for pharmacy, medical, and dental students. Additionally, she acts as a reviewer for several journals, including Pharmaceuticals, Molecules, Brain Sciences, Pharmacia, Plants, Nutrients, and Metabolites, among others.
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Her professional affiliations include membership in the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union since 2004, where she also holds the position of Chairwoman of the Ethics and Quality Commission at the Regional Pharmaceutical College in Varna. She is the Coordinator for Continuing Education for Master Pharmacists in the Varna Region, in accordance with the Law on Professional Organizations. Furthermore, she has been a member of the Board of the Bulgarian Society of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy since 2022 and joined the Bulgarian Scientific Society of Pharmacy in 2024.
