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INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SCIENTISTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV FOR INNOVATION IN THE FIELD OF NEW BIO-MATERIALS AND BIO-SENSORS AT THE TAIWAN INNOTECH EXPO /SEPTEMBER, 2019/

In the period Sept.,26^th – 28^th, 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan, was held in the building of the World Trade Center – the annual international exhibition for innovations and technologies – Taiwan Innotech Expo. Hosts and organizers of this event were the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Science and Technologies, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Education, Agricultural Council, Taiwan Council for Foreign Trade Development (TAITRA), and the Institute for Industrial Technological Researches (ITRI). There were presented innovations of about 600 exhibitors, representatives of different Universities, scientific institutes, companies, and associations for intellectual property. Corporate innovations – products and technologies were presented by Nissan, Microsoft, Merck, and others. The Expo was visited by more than 45’000 visitors. The fields of innovative researches and products may be listed, as it follows:

• Products and technologies;
• Processes of digitalization of data for electricity power;
• Optics and information technologies;
• Optoelectronics and liquid crystals;
• Biotechnologies,
• Biochemistry and medicine;
• Food technologies;
• Organic and non-organic chemistry
• Chemistry of polymers;
• Engineering;

The University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski” received an official Invitation to participate in the Taiwan Innotech Expo by the Taiwan Council for Foreign Trade Development (TAITRA) and was assisted for this participation by the company “IP CONSULTING” Ltd., which helped Bulgaria to organize its own kiosk at the Expo. The Director of the Centre of Technologies at the University of Plovdiv – Prof. Iliya Iliev, PhD presented 4 innovations of different teams of the University of Plovdiv, which are patented:

• A Tool to Determine the Inner Battery Resistance and Voltage – Authors: Nevena Mileva, Sotir Sotirov, Sergey Milev, and Mihail Milev;
• A Bio-Electro-Chemical Method for Quantitative Analysis of L-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) – authors: Nina Dimcheva, Elena Horozova, Totka Dodevska;
• Preparation of Water-Insoluble Glykan by Transferase Enzyme Reaction – authors: Iliya Iliev, Tonka Vassileva, Veselin Bivolarski, Temenuzhka Yovcheva, Maria Mavrudova, Asia Viraneva, Ivan Bodurov;
• An Universal Laser Micro-Refractometer – authors: Ivan Bodurov, Temenuzhka Yovcheva, and Simeon Sainov;

Two of the innovations – mentioned in the above sections (2) and (3) – were selected to participate in the Scientific Competition of the Expo in the fields of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Medicine and were presented by Prof. Iliya Iliev, PhD at the Taiwan Innotech Expo. At the official ceremony, conducted on September 28^th, 2019, the innovation of the Team, lead by Prof. Iliya Iliev, PhD was awarded a Gold Model and a Certificate, while the innovation of the Team, lead by Assoc. Prof. Nina Dimcheva, PhD was awarded a Bronze Medal and a Certificate. The two innovations are a part of multi-annual joint R&D work of the teams; a part of the researches a financed by projects of the University of Plovdiv R&D Funds. The authors of innovations are members of the R&D Team of the PERIMED Project – a project for Personalized Innovative Medicine. The authors are also members of teams, distributed into working in the following PERIMED Work Packages:

• Work Package № 6: Molecular Biomarkers of Microbiota of Gastro-Intestinal Tract;
• Work Package № 10: Biocatalysts and Natural Biologically Active Substances;
• Work Package № 11: Biopolymers and New Materials;
• Work Package № 12: Biosensors;

The conducted researches are a part of the R&D Program of the Centre and shall serve as a basis to develop technologies to retrieve new biomaterials and biosensors, and their inclusion in preparation of new products.