Biography

Since 2021, Kiril Dimitrov, DVM, Ph.D., has served as the TVMDL assistant director for microbiology and research and development. Joining the department in 2019, he initially served as the virology and molecular diagnostics section head at the Amarillo laboratory then joined the College Station laboratory to serve as the virology section head. Dimitrov came to TVMDL from the USDA National Poultry Research Center, where he served as a visiting scientist and worked on the development of rapid diagnostics tools, researched viral molecular epidemiology and evolution, next generation sequencing methodologies and bioinformatics, and vaccines.

Dimitrov earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Trakia University, Bulgaria. After graduation, he trained at various agencies specializing in food safety, avian disease diagnostics and molecular diagnostics. In 2013, he earned a doctorate from the National Diagnostic and Research Veterinary Medical Institute in Bulgaria, focusing on molecular-epidemiological studies of Newcastle disease.