Prof. Dr. Denitsa Docheva Department of Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration Orthopaedic Hospital König-Ludwig-Haus (KLH) University of Würzburg Würzburg, GERMANY Denitsa graduated with two parallel Master Degrees (Biology and Chemistry) from the Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Afterwards Denitsa obtained a PhD fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany and graduated in 2005. Then she moved to the Department of Trauma Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany where she established the Tendon Research Group. In 2012, Denitsa completed her habilitation in Experimental Surgery at the LMU. 2016 to 2021, she was Professor for Experimental Trauma Surgery and Research Director at the Department of Trauma Surgery, University of Regensburg, Germany. In October 2021, she became Professor and Chair of the Department of Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration, KLH & University of Würzburg, Germany. She has published more than 100 articles and has won multiple grants; currently, she is participating in several EU consortia (MEFISTO, OSTEOMET, OSTASKILLS, NetwOArk and TENET). 2018 to 2020, she was the President of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS). 2018 to 2022, she served at the steering committee of the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Society (ICORS). 2019 to 2023, she was the Chair of the Musculoskeletal Regeneration Network of the Basic Research Section of the German Society of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery (DGOU). 2022, she was recognized as a Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (FIOR) by ICORS and was awarded the Commemorative Medal of the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Since 2023, she is a member of the International Advisory Board ”Strategic Research and Innovations Program” Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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