Keynote Speakers > Cecilia Cristea

Prof.  Cecilia Cristea  , is the Director of the Drugs Bioanalysis and Nanotechnologies Research Center – BioNanoMed and group leader of Biosensors and Bioelectrochemistry Group from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy. “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca. Romania. The Research center is using an interdisciplinary approach to identify and analyze drugs, metabolites, biomarkers, drugs of abuse, and pathogen bacteria from biological fluids, and environmental and food samples. After graduating from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Babes Bolyai University, she also graduates from the Faculty of Pharmacy from “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry at the Rennes 1 University, France, and Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Professor Cristea is a member of the Scientific Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (BES) and Associate Editor of the Microchemical Journal. She authored more than 200 papers (H index of 42) and 27 book chapters. Her research interests are in the development and implementation of advanced molecular materials for electrochemical sensing devices for biologically relevant molecules and the design of new (bio)sensors and biomimetic approaches for biomedical applications, pharmaceutical, food, and environmental analysis. The selection of aptamers for biosensing purposes but also for targeted drug delivery is a new research direction of her interest.