Altankov, George P.

Biography

He is graduated from the Higher Medical Institute, Varna, Bulgaria, in 1974 where he also started his research carrier as Assistant Perofessor in the Dept. of Physiology. After obtaining his PhD in 1984 he joined the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Biophysics Sofia) where he got his first habilitation as Associate Professor (1994) and grew up to Full Professor (2002), head of Department "Cell Adhesion" and Research Director. He would describe himself as an interdisciplinary-oriented scientist working in the field of cell-biomaterial interaction and tissue engineering. In 1991-1993 he was postdoc in Southwestern Medical Center Dallas and during the following decade he spent more than 7 years as guest-scientist in Germany and France, and later almost 2 years in Spain. Since April 2007 he is a ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) heading the new research group Molecular Dynamics at Cell-Biomaterials Interface.

Research Interest

cell-biomaterials interaction, tissue engineering, development of provisional extracellular matrix, biomaterials interface, integrin dynamics, cell adhesion, synthesis of nanofibres