
Education
Academic standard
- Academic standard Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Academic standard Pharmaceutical analysis
- Academic standard Pharmacognosy
Syllabus
Curriculum for lectures
- Curriculum for lectures Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Curriculum for lectures Pharmaceutical analysis
- Curriculum for lectures Pharmacognosy part I
- Curriculum for lectures Pharmacognosy part II
Curriculum for practicum
- Curriculum for practicum Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Curriculum for practicum Pharmaceutical analisys
- Curriculum for practicum Pharmacognosy part II
Schedule for conducting students
- Schedule for consultations Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical analisys
- Schedule for consultations Pharmacognosy part II
Conspectus
- Conspectus of Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Conspectus of Pharmaceutical analysis
- Conspectus of Pharmacognosy part I
- Conspectus of Pharmacognosy part II
- Conspectus for pre-graduation probation of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis
- Conspectus for government exam of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis
Requirements for colloquium
- Requirements for colloquium of Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical analysis
- Requirements for colloquium of Pharmacognosy
- Requirements for government exam of Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical analysis
Requirements for theoretical exam
- Requirements for theoretical exam in Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Requirements for theoretical exam in Pharmaceutical analysis
- Requirements for theoretical exam in Pharmacogosy part I
- Requirements for theoretical exam in Pharmacogosy part II
Instructions for the online semester exam
- Instructions for the online semester exam in Pharmacognosy part I
- Instructions for the online semester exam in Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Instructions for the online semester exam in Pharmaceutical analysis
The department of Pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry was founded in April 2014. The training of undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students takes place in the building located on 120 Brothers Buxton Bld. and includes the following disciplines:
Pharmaceutical chemistry is an essential part of pharmaceutical education. It has interdisciplinary character and combines aspects of organic chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry and other disciplines. The course of pharmaceutical chemistry includes drug discovery and development, dug design, chemical structures, structure-activity relationship, syntheses, metabolism, pharmacological action and other important topics.
During the course of Pharmaceutical analysis, students will be exposed to advance knowledge on modern techniques and instrumental analysis for quality assurance and quality control of drugs. Teaching of theory and applications is through lectures and seminars. To supplement the lectures there is a programme of laboratory classes. The laboratory work is carried out in our teaching laboratories which are equipped with advances analytical instruments, such as HPLC, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Infrared Spectrophotometer and others. Students will gain key skills in the area of pharmaceutical analysis: evaluation and interpretation of data, application of analytical techniques.
The course of Pharmacognosy provides pharmacy students with the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills for medicinal plants collection process, identification, qualitative and quantitative methods for analyses of their chemical composition. Students will also gain knowledge about the pharmacological effects and therapeutic applications of the medicinal plants and plant-based pharmaceutical products. The Pharmacognosy course will help the pharmacists in their future work in drugstores, distribution or industrial manufacture of phytopharmaceutical products.
Academic Staff
“Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical analysis”
Kalin Ivanov, MPharm, PhD – Associate Professor – Head of the Department
Stanislava Ivanova, MPharm, PhD – Associate Professor – Responsible for research activities

Velislava Todorova, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for web site

Stanislav Dyankov, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for measurement and monitoring resources

Zoya Dzhakova, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for measurement and monitoring resources

Velina Dzhoglova, MPharm – Assistant Professor

Pavlina Kostova, MPharm – Assistant Professor

Stela Pashova, MPharm – Assistant Professor

Stoyan Papanov, MPharm, PhD – Chief Assistant Professor
“Pharmacognosy”
Niko Benbasat, MPharm, PhD – Associate Professor

Paolina Lukova, MPharm, PhD- Chief Assistant Professor –

Diana Karcheva-Bahchevanska, MPharm, PhD – Chief Assistant Professor – Administrative assistant

Daniela Seymenska, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for teaching activities

Vanya Nalbantova, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for quality control

Borislava Lechkova, MPharm – Assistant Professor – Responsible for work safety

Yoana Georgieva- biologist

Nuray Myumyunova- chemist – Financially responsible person

Research
The main directions in the research work of the department are:
- Characterization of the chemical composition of biologically active extracts from Bulgarian medicinal plants.
- Phytochemical analysis of plant polysaccharides and investigation of their biological activities.
- Investigation of plant polyphenols biological activities.
- Development of food supplements with potential antioxidant, immunostimulatory and antiviral activity.
- Development of analytical methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of non-labeled substances in food supplements;
- Development of analytical methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of doping substances;
- Development of analytical methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of substances monitored by WADA.
Textbooks
Pharmacognosy
1Evans W. Trease and Evans’ Pharmacognosy, 16th Edition, Saunders Ltd., New York, 2009
2.Heinrich M., Barnes J., Gibbons S., Williamson E. Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, Elsevier, 2012.
3.Shah B. Textbook of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2013.
4.European Pharmacopoeia Monographs. European Pharmacopoeia 9, 2016.
5.WHO. Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants. WHO, Geneva: v.1, 1999; v.2, 2002; v. 3, 2007; v.4, 2009.
Pharmaceutical chemistry
1. Watson, David G. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2011.
2. Hill, Raymond G. Drug Discovery and Development,Elsevier Health Sciences, 2012.
3. Donald Cairns,Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 4th edition, 2012
4. Jill Barber,Chris Rostron,Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2013
Pharmaceutical analysis
1. European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) 9th Edition
2. Watson, David G. Pharmaceutical analysis, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2017
3. Steen Hansen, Stig Pedersen‐Bjergaard, Knut Rasmussen, Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
4. Quality assurance of pharmaceuticals, WHO, second edition
Publications
The academic staff of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical chemistry have published more than 140 scientific papers, 27 of them are publications with impact factor. The scientific publications are cited over 250 times. The researchers from the department participated in more than 60 international and 40 national scientific confernces, as well in 10 scientific projects
Monographs
Dissertations
- Kalin Ivanov – „Approaches for analytical control of aminoacids in food supplements “;
- Stanislava Ivanova – “Pharmacoanalytical control of food supplements with androgenic activity”;
- Paolina Lukova – “Study of prebiotic activity of polysaccharides from Bulgarian Plantago L. species”;
- Diana Karcheva-Bahchevanska – “Study of the functional properties of polyphenol extracts from Vaccinium L. species on carbohydrate metabolism enzymes”;
- Stefka Ivanova – “Regulatory aspects of the treatment of osteoporosis and analytical characteristics of certain steroid-containing drugs”