Senior Researcher III PhD Irina Şchiopu
Department of Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences
Areas of expertise:
- molecular biophysics
- bio-nanotechnology
Scientific profile:
Contact:
- Email: irina.schiopu@uaic.ro
PhD in Physics, in the fundamental field of Exact Sciences, since 2014, my research activity is in the subfields of molecular biophysics and bio-nanotechnology with applications in biomedicine. My main research directions involve single-molecule, nanopore protein based studies of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as an alternative to conventional antibiotics, amyloid-beta peptides responsible in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson), dendrimers as targeted drug-carrier delivery systems, DNA molecules and their synthetic analogs (PNA – peptide nucleic acid) as detection systems for inframicrobial pathogens (e.g., H1N1, SARS-CoV2).