Project cooperationUpdated on 10 June 2026
prof. Ruzha Pancheva, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition | Medical University of Varna at Medical University – Varna “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov”
Varna, Bulgaria
About
The Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the Medical University of Varna (Bulgaria) offers expertise in pediatric nutrition, child growth and development, and prevention of childhood obesity and non-communicable diseases. The team is led by Prof. Ruzha Pancheva, MD, PhD, a specialist in child nutrition and long-standing collaborator of UNICEF, providing a direct pathway to policy uptake in Southeast Europe.
Through recent infrastructure investment (Nutrilect project), we operate a fully equipped body composition and physical capacity laboratory, including air-displacement plethysmography (BOD POD), RMR, cycle ergometry, and hand-grip dynamometry, enabling gold-standard outcome assessment in pediatric intervention studies.
We seek to join consortia as a partner contributing: (1) clinical and field data collection in child cohorts, (2) precision body composition and fitness measurement, (3) nutrition intervention design and evaluation, and (4) stakeholder and policy engagement via our UNICEF collaboration. As a Widening-country institution, we also strengthen consortium geographic balance.
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Expertise
Prof. Dr.Ruzha Pancheva, MD, PhD
- Life Sciences (LIF)
Rouzha Pancheva
Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition | Medical University of Varna at Medical University – Varna “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov”
Varna, Bulgaria
Expertise
Mineral Composition & Heavy Metal Analysis (ICP-MS)
- Chemistry (CHE)
Tunahan TOPCU
Project Manager Assistant and Food Engineer at Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - Bolu Food Control Laboratory Directorate
BOLU, Türkiye
Expertise
Accredited Food & Feed Safety Analysis Partner
Tunahan TOPCU
Project Manager Assistant and Food Engineer at Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - Bolu Food Control Laboratory Directorate
BOLU, Türkiye