Biography

Iskra Ventseslavova Sainova has completed her PhD at the Department of Oncovirology to the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology (IEPP) to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in Sofia, Bulgaria, with a title “Investigation on the replication of vaccine avipoxviral strains in different cellculture systems”. The main goal has been directed to development of maximally safe methods for application of viral strains for production of gene-engineering vaccines, but also as vectors for transfer of nucleotide sequences. She is assistant professor in the field of molecular biotechnology, molecular and cellular biology. In the last years, her work is directed to investigation on the possibility about production of immune molecules by non-immune cellular types in appropriate conditions. She has over 100 publications that have been cited over 150 times.

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Research Interest

Orthopedics