Anny Usheva-Simidjiyska

  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interests

  • Basic mechanisms of gene expression regulation at the level of transcription

Education

  • 1976 - M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry, Sofia Institute of Chemical Technology, Bulgaria
  • 1982 - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), German Academy of Sciences, Berlin

Postdoctoral Training

  • 1989-1991 - Weiznann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, with Dr. Yosi Alony, Gene Transcription Regulation
  • 1992-1997 - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Department of Molecular Biology with Dr.Thomas Shenk, Transcription, Virology

Licensure and Certification

  • 1977 - Certificate for fluency in Fortran and Pascal computer languages, Bulgaria

Academic Appointments

  • 1983-1988 - Research Investigator , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 1999 - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 2005 - Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston 

Hospital or Affiliated Institution Appointments

  • 01/98 - Staff Ph.D, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • 01/05-10/10 - Director, Basic Science Research, Reproductive Endocrinology , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (East), Boston, MA

Other Professional Positions and Major VisitingAppointments

  • 1988-1989 - Visiting Scientist, Karolinska Instituted, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2005 - Visiting Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Division of Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, , Los Alamos, NM
  • 2008 - Adjunct Associate Professor, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

Major Administrative Responsibilities

  • 1998 - Principal Investigator of a research laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Major Committee Assignments

International

  • 1982-1983 - Representative, East European Industrial and Economical Union

Professional Societies

  • 1985 - Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), Committee Assignment
  • 1998 - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Member
  • 1999 - American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member
  • 2002 - American Heart Association, Member

Community Service Related to Professional Work

  • 2002 - Minority Faculty Development Program K-12 for the local high schools minority students and teachers, Harvard Medical School

Editorial Boards

  • 1998 - Reviewer, Nucleic Acids Research
  • 2000 - Reviewer, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • 2009 - Reviewer, Reproductive Immunology
  • 2009 - Reviewer, PLoSONE

Awards and Honors

  • 1977 - The Inventor of the Year - for production of highly reactive furan derivatives, Bulgarian Ministry of Industrial Chemistry, Bulgaria
  • 1986 - Academic Exchanges, German Foundation for Academic Exchanges
  • 1988 - 1989 Research fellowship, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden
  • 1990 - Scholar in Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • 1996 - Richard Kay teaching fellowship , Princeton University
  • 1998 - Research award, Eduard Mallinckrodt, Jr.
  • 1999 - Young investigator award, American Heart Association
  • 2000 - Selected publication for the journal cover , Circulation Research
  • 2002 - Selected publication for the journal cover, Nucleic Acids Research
  • 2003-2007 - Research Award, Department of Energy (DOE)
  • 2003 - Selected by the scientific list, Faculty of 1000
  • 2004-2005 - WILLIAM F. MILTON Fund award, Harvard University
  • 2004-2006 - User Proposal Award, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories

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