Genova, Tsanislava, Avramov, Latchezar, Kolev, Boyko, Gisbrecht, Alexander, Bliznakova, Irina, Zaharieva, Lidiya, Mircheva, Victoria, Ilyov, Stoyan, Angelov, Ivan, Mantareva, Vanya, Troyanova, Petranka, Pavlova, Petya, Novikova, Tatiana, Ossikovski, Razvigor, Ivanov, Deyan, Dremin, Viktor, Rafailov, Edik U., Sokolovsky, Sergey G., Bykov, Alexander, Meglinski, Igor V., Bratchenko, Ivan, Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Oxana, Genina, Elina, Bashkatov, Alexey N., Bucharskaya, Alla B., Zakharov, Valery, Spigulis, Janis, Melanthota, Sindhoora Kaniyala, Spandana, K. U., Mazumder, Nirmal, Shama, Prasada K., Townsend, Peter, Oliveira, Luís, Priezzhev, Alexander V., Sterenborg, Dick H.J.C.M. and Tuchin, Valery V. (2021). A review of career devoted to biophotonics-in memoriam to Ekaterina Borisova (1978-2021). Journal of Biomedical Photonics and Engineering, 7 (4),
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Regretfully, because of her sudden demise, Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisova is no longer amongst us. COVID-19 pulled away a brilliant scientist during the peak of her scientific career (see Fig. 1). All authors would like to express deepest condolences and sincere support to her family, friends, relatives and colleagues! We, therefore, rightfully commemorate her dedicated and devoted contribution to biophotonics, her readiness to always support, help, motivate and inspire all her colleagues and collaborators.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18287/JBPE21.07.040101 |
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| Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT) College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design Aston University (General) |
| Funding Information: | We would like to acknowledge the support from the National Science Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (NSFB-MES) under all current projects involving Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisova, which are grant numbers: #DN 18-8; #КP06-N29/11/18.12.18; #KP06-N28/11/14.12.2018; #KP06-Russia-9/2020; #KP-06-N23/8; #KP-06/N38/13; #KP06-India-8/07.08.2019; #KP-06-KOST-6. Also, projects under NRRI #DO1-401/18.12.2020 and #D01-392/18.12.2020. In a very prolific way, Ekaterina Borisova had been successfully gathering scientists from different countries and institutions to work together. Recently, in Saratov through the efforts of the Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, together with SSU, SSMU, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms and Precision Mechanics and Control Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the development of a new strategy for the combined treatment of a tumor has begun, namely, the plasmon photothermal and photodynamic anticancer therapies using nanocomposites of gold nanoparticles with a novel type photosensitizer. The first results showed the effectiveness of the approach [98], but unfortunately, they were suspended. Ekaterina was the link between scientific groups from Bulgaria and Russia that synthesized agents and nanocomposites and conducted animal tests. For all of us, the loss of Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisovasivery painful. We hopeot babeolteo incnusrteareehcn em iory of hemr. Furthermore, Ekaterina Borisova had good collaboration with many Russian groups. During 3 years she has joint projects with Oxana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya’s team in Saratov State University. Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisova was PI of the project from Russian Foundation of Basic Research (2017–2018) “Development of new optical technologies for improvement of diagnostics quality of gastric cancer”. The aim of the project was to develop innovative technologies for sensitive diagnosis of the initial stages of gastric cancer and ways to prevent the development of metastases, as well as preventive methods to reduce the incidence of this pathology in risk groups. In 2021, Ekaterina received the grant from Russian Science Foundation. The idea of this project was to develop the specific antibodies for fluorescent gastroscopy and detection of malignant changes in stomach. Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisova was also co-PI of project “Development of a pilot technology for early diagnosis of gastric cancer based on fluorescent gastroscopy using immune antibodies to PD-L1“. The project solves the urgent and complex problem of early diagnosis of gastric cancer based on the application of pioneering discoveries in the field of immunology of malignant tumors and the development of a new direction in the molecular diagnosis of cancer based on the use of antibodies to PD-L1 – the ligand of programmed death. Russian-Bulgarian collaboration was very productive, including organization of exchange of students, training courses and publication more than 30 articles in the peer review journals (see Refs. [64–68, 87–99]) as well as preparation of several thesis of candidate of science. She kindly allowed us to publish for the first time the maps of autofluorescence emission of normal skin in vivo measured by her in the monograph (Fig. 5.5) [93] and was very proud about that. The ideas of Ekaterina will be continued in further research at Saratov State University with the usnemnory aybout htmbest frieend and bright csientist. |
| Additional Information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . Funding Information: We would like to acknowledge the support from the National Science Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (NSFB-MES) under all current projects involving Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Borisova, which are grant numbers: #DN 18-8; #КP06-N29/11/18.12.18; #KP06-N28/11/14.12.2018; #KP06-Russia-9/2020; #KP-06-N23/8; #KP-06/N38/13; #KP06-India-8/07.08.2019; #KP-06-KOST-6. Also, projects under NRRI #DO1-401/18.12.2020 and #D01-392/18.12.2020. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Biomedical Engineering,Biomaterials,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Acoustics and Ultrasonics |
| Publication ISSN: | 2411-2844 |
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| Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2022 12:29 |
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Avramov, Latchezar Kolev, Boyko Gisbrecht, Alexander Bliznakova, Irina Zaharieva, Lidiya Mircheva, Victoria Ilyov, Stoyan Angelov, Ivan Mantareva, Vanya Troyanova, Petranka Pavlova, Petya Novikova, Tatiana Ossikovski, Razvigor Ivanov, Deyan Dremin, Viktor ( 
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