Petia Genova Kalou
National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Bulgaria
Title: Rapid detection of human herpes viruses, mumps virus and SARS-cov-2 using a combination of polymerase chain reaction techniques and surface plasmonic-based biosensor assay
Biography
Biography: Petia Genova Kalou
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Petia Genova-Kalou received his M.S. degree in Molecular Biology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridki”, Bulgaria and Ph.D. degree on SOCRATES-ERASMUS exchange program from Sofia University and University of Ioannina, Greece in the field of Virology. She has specialization of “Clinical Virology” in Medical University – Sofia. She has worked part-time at Hellenic Pasteur Institute Greece (2006 – 2007), at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece (2007) and National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria (currently). During this period P. Genova-Kalou was involved in study of antiviral effect of different newly synthesized and natural compounds in cell culture, diagnostic of herpes and oncogenic viruses, epidemiology and molecular study and diagnostics of rickettsiae. She is the author and co-author of over 60 scientific articles and over 200 reports.