He graduated and received the Ph.D. degree in pharmacology from the same university in 1998 and 2007, respectively. From 1999 to 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at the Medical University of Sofia as well. His research interests are experimental anticancer chemotherapy, anticancer drug design, antineoplastic metallodrugs (platinum, palladium, ruthenium, and gold complexes), chemoprotection and resque therapy, ethnopharmacology and phytopharmacology, phytomedicines, and nanomedicine and targeted drug delivery systems key publications.