Maria P. Ikonomopoulou
Dr. Maria Ikonomopoulou is a Senior Research TALENTO Fellow (Program of excellence in research by the Madrid Government) and Head of the Translational Venomics Group at IMDEA-Food Institute in Madrid. She is Honorary Associate Professor in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, Co-ordinator of the Stakeholder Engagement Committee and in the Core Management of the COST Action CA19144 EUVEN – European Venom Network as well as supporter of STEMM WOMEN in Australia. She has international research experience in biology and biotechnology from Australia, Spain, Greece, Ireland and Malaysia and has been successfully collaborating with the industry for over ten years. Her research is focused on the biodiscovery, pharmacological characterisation, and optimisation of animal venom compounds as tools or agent candidates (anticancer: melanoma or anti-aging: senolytics). Therefore, she utilizes interdisciplinary approaches, including molecular, cell biology, state-of-the-art venomics, animal models of cancer and metabolic disorders as well as medicinal chemistry and structure-activity relationship. Her broad research goal is to understand the biology of senescence and cancer by the study of animal venoms and to discover new & safe venom-based anti-aging therapies.
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