Prof. Dr. Milen I. Georgiev is heading a Lab of Metabolomics at the Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has 20 years of experience in the natural products field and has published in excess of 200 papers in journals such as Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Molecular Plant, Genome Biology, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, and Plant Biotechnology Journal, among others. He has delivered 60+ invited lectures in 25 different countries. His current research focuses on the biosynthesis of fine molecules and development of biotech tools for their sustainable mass production, metabolomics and comprehensive metabolite profiling, and molecular pharmacology with a particular focus on longevity, obesity, and photoaging of skin. Milen is a recipient of the Pythagoras award for outstanding scientist by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (2011, 2015, 2020, and 2024), being the only scientist in Bulgaria to have won four times. Since 2020, he is listed among the top 2% in the worldwide citation ranking of all scientists and scientific disciplines for five consecutive years. Milen serves as an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board member of a dozen journals in biotechnology and natural products fields, including Phytomedicine, Phytochemistry, Phytochemistry Reviews, Biotechnology Letters, Chinese Medicine, Food Frontiers, Frontiers in Pharmacology, eFood, among others. Serving as a chairman, he has established the International Conference on Natural Products Utilization: from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf (ICNPU; www.icnpu2025.com), which has had five issues so far. Scopus profile: www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8667167400
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Keywords:
Biotechnology Metabolomics Anti-obesity leads Longevity Photoaging
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Biotechnology Metabolomics Anti-obesity leads Longevity Photoaging
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