Martina Savova, a researcher from the Plant Cell Biotechnology Department of CPSBB, was awarded from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) with the prestigious “Ivan E. Geshov” award for young scientist in the field of biomedicine and quality of life. Martina has demonstrated an innovative approach in her PhD thesis work to study molecular mechanisms of obesity in cellular (human adipocytes) and organism (C. elegans) models.