She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation [1] Trayanova's father was a physiologist and director of the Biophysics Institute in Bulgaria.
[3] Her father gave her a copy of Robert Plonsey's book, Bioelectric Phenomena, and Trayanova realised she could use her physics expertise in biology.
[2] She earned a PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986, where she studied skeletal muscle fibre biopotentials[3] In 1986 Trayanova joined Duke University working with Robert Plonsey on rhythmic dysfunction in the heart.
[10] The award gave her $2.5 million over five years to develop patient-specific computational models of the heart, allowing for doctors to provide personalised treatment and diagnoses.
[16] She was selected by the National Institutes of Health to take part in a briefing at Capitol Hill looking to defend the federal funding of scientific research.