The main research areas at the Faculty of Biotechnology
- Cancer therapy (oncogenesis, therapeutic proteins, the role of vitamin D):
Department of Protein Biotechnology
Department of Protein Engineering
Department of Cell Pathology
- Protein studies (proteins modifications and engineering, protein structural studies, metal binding proteins, Quantum dots, photoactivation, nanobiosensors):
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Biophysics
Department of Protein Engineering
Department of Chemical Biology
- Microbiology (mechanisms of virulence of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Candida spp, antibiotics targets in Mycobacteria, antibiotics production by Streptomyces):
Department of Molecular Microbiology
Department of Biotransformation
Laboratory of Medical Biology
- Plant biology and modifications (improved properties of plants, plant mitochondrial genome):
Department of Cellular Molecular Biology
Department of Genetic Biochemistry
- Membranes and liposomes (lipid signalling, membrane rafts, liposomes as drug carriers):
Department of Lipids and Liposomes
Department of Cytobiochemistry
- Bioinformatics (evolution, genome structure):
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Gene therapy (gene therpies in laminopathies):
Laboratory of Nuclear Proteins