The main research areas at the Faculty of Biotechnology

• Cancerogenesis and anti-cancer therapy: oncogenesis, metastasis, signalling pathways, cancer environment, immunomodulation, therapeutic proteins, protein drug conjugates, antibody drug conjugates, nuclear receptors in anticancer therapy, carriers of anticancer drugs, lipids and membrane rafts in cancer:
  Department of Protein Biotechnology
  Department of Protein Engineering
  Department of Cell Pathology
  Department of Lipids and Liposomes
  Department of Cytobiochemistry

• Protein biochemistry and engineering: protein modifications, protein structural studies, protein stability, protein design, glycosylation, metal binding proteins, growth factors and their receptors, nanobiosensors photoactivation, photosynthetic proteins, heme-binding proteins, protein-membrane interactions, protein-protein interaction:
  Department of Biochemistry
  Department of Biophysics
  Department of Protein Engineering
  Department of Chemical Biology
  Laboratory of Medical Biology
  Department of Protein Biotechnology
  Department of Protein Biotechnology

• Microbiology: mechanisms of virulence (Porphyromonas gingivalis, Bacteroides fragilis and Candida spp,) genes expression, regulation of antibiotics production, cell cycle and bacterial chromosome (Mycobacteria and Streptomyces), genome stability (baker and fission yeast), production biosurfactants (Bacillus sp):
  Department of Molecular Microbiology
  Department of Biotransformation
  Laboratory of Medical Biology

• Genome organisation and bioinformatics: genome evolution, bacterial genome organisation, mitochondrial genome, nuclear proteins, laminopathies, gene therapies, genome stability and DNA repair:
  Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
  Laboratory of Nuclear Proteins
  Department of Molecular Microbiology
  Department of Biotransformation

• Plant biology and modifications: plant engineering, regulation of metabolites biosynthesis, protection against infections, response to abiotic stress, regulation of gene expression, mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics:
  Department of Cellular Molecular Biology
  Department of Genetic Biochemistry
• Membranes biochemistry and biophysics: lipid signalling, membrane rafts, drug carriers: liposomes and emulsions:
  Department of Lipids and Liposomes
  Department of Cytobiochemistry