Biography:

Desislava Doycheva, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at Loma Linda University. She has over a decade of experience in translational neuroscience and cardiovascular research, with extensive expertise in small-animal disease models, molecular biology, and mechanistic studies of ischemic injury. Her earlier work focused on neonatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy and ischemic stroke, where she contributed to multiple NIH- and AHA-funded studies investigating endoplasmic reticulum stress, inflammation, and neuroprotection.