Stella Taka, MSc, PhD is molecular biologist, postdoctoral researcher at the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Allergy Unit, 2nd Pediatric Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She has over 12 years of experience in the molecular diagnostic field, especially in the diagnosis of allergies and infectious diseases. Οι διδακτορικές της σπουδές επικεντρώθηκαν στην ανοσολογική απόκριση των μακροφάγων υπό λοίμωξη από Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, ένα βακτήριο που σχετίζεται με τις φλεγμονώδεις ασθένειες του εντέρου (ΙΦΝΕ).
Since 2017, established and is the CEO of the StArtBio PC company, which specializes in the field of molecular and cellular diagnosis of allergic diseases and respiratory pathogens. She is an expert in functional genomics and proteomics analysis due to her master's degree in Molecular Medicine at the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Her PhD studies focused on the immune response of macrophages under infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, a bacterium associated with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). In recent years, her main research activities have focused on the interaction between human respiratory pathogens (viruses and bacteria), and natural immunity. She has participated as a principal researcher in European programs: NANOMYC, MIDAS, PREDICTA, iFaam, CURE.
She has 40 pear reviewed articles (h-index 16) and over 500 references. She has received eight awards for papers at international and national conferences. She is an active member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – EAACI.
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