ELENA RADU, PhD student

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER

ELENA RADU is junior researcher at Cellular and Molecular Pathology Department.

Expertise area includes antibiotic resistance in both clinical and natural environments, SARS-CoV-2 detection and characterization in wastewater and clinical samples.

Research interests:(1)Detection and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants and other viruses in wastewater; (2) Antibiotic resistance in natural environments such as soil, water (surface water, groundwater, wastewater); (3) Antibiotic resistance in clinical environment Additional research interests are:drug resistance dissemination under the framework of OneHealth concept; biodiversity and microbiome/resistome characterization in natural environments