On 19 December 2023, the ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’ National Endowment Fund will award the Ralitsa Prize to three students from the Medicine, Dental Medicine, or Pharmacy specialisms of the Medical University of Plovdiv, who have achieved excellent results in Biochemistry.
A committee from the Department of Medical Biochemistry, headed by Assoc. Prof. Dr Anelia Bivolarska, announced the three laureates of the 2023 Ralitsa Prize: second-year students Kamen Georgev Petkov (Medicine specialism), Daniela Nikolaeva Zlatanska (Dental Medicine), and Atanas Petrov Lambrev (Pharmacy). They will receive their awards in an official ceremony at the university.
The prize was established in 2023 at the suggestion of Dr Maria Staykova, in the name of her mother, Ralitsa Beleva-Staykova (1921–2005), who worked for many years in the field of biochemistry.
The donor has proposed that the amount granted in 2023 should be EUR 200 for each winner.