Vassya Bankova

Vassya Stefanova Bankova (; born 1954, in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian chemist and a president of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society, Correspondent Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2014. Bankova is a professor and Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also an honorary professor on the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University. She is known as a propolis expert.

She graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in 1977.

Works V. Bankova. Chemical diversity of propolis and the problem of standardization. J. Ethnopharmacol. 100 (1-2), 114—117 (2005). V. Bankova, B. Trusheva., M.Popova. New developments in propolis chemical diversity studies (since 2000) In: N. Orsolich & I. Basic (Eds), Scientific Evidence of Use of Propolis in Ethnomedicine, 1-13, Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, 2008. V. Bankova, B. Trusheva. Chemical profiles of different propolis types in relation to their biological activity. In: T. Farooki and A. Farooki, Eds., Beneficial effects of propolis on human health and chronic diseases. Nova Science Publishers, New York. 2013.