Biography :
Dr. Dimcho Bachvarov received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Sofia in 1975-1978. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. In 1994, he was appointed as Adjunct Professor at Laval University’s department of Pharmacology. Consecutively, Dr. Bachvarov was promoted to Assistant Professor (1997), Associate Professor (2002), and since 2005 he has been a Full Professor at Laval University’s Department of Molecular Medicine. During his academic career, Dr. Bachvarov has received different Scholarship Awards, with the most representative being the Ernest J.B. Tomlinson Scholarship Award from the Kidney Foundation of Canada and other Scholarship Awards (Junior and Senior) from Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQ-S).