Florin Despa

University of Chicago, Chicago, .

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Pagina web a instituţiei: http://www.uchicago.edu
Pagina web personala: http://surgery.uchicago.edu/Surgical_Specialties/Plastic_And_Reconstructive_Surgery/About_Us/Faculty

Nascut(a) in: 1967

Interese: inginerie medicala, bioinginerie, informatica biomedicala, biofizica medicala, chimie fizica

Detalii:
Sunt asist. profesor la Facultatea de Medicina a Universitatii din Chicago, cu expertiza in informatica biomedicala si bioinginerie. Am
obtinut doctoratul in Fizica si am efectuat studii postoctorale in chimie fizica (Leuven, Belguim) biofizica moleculara (Univ. of Chicago). Intre 2003-2005 am activat ca
instructor (preparator) in biofizica moleculara in cadrul Departmentului de Chirurgie al Facultatii de Medicina a Universitatii din Chicago. Am publicat 50 de lucrari
stiintifice in reviste internationale si am prezentat peste 40 de lucrari stiintifice la conferinte internationale. Am editat cartea "Cell Injury-Mechanisms, Responses and Repair" publicata de "Annals of New York Academy of Sciences" si sunt co-autor al unui patent (USA) in domeniul refoldarii proteinelor. Sunt referent la 6 reviste stiintifice internationale, membru al "The Editorial Board of The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal" si al catorva associatii stiintifice si profesionale. Cateva din rezultate mele
stiintifice recente au fost mentionate in revista "Nature" (2004), "Peer Review" (2005) - o revista de popularizare a stiintei din Chicago (2005)-, pe "web site"-ul "Annals of
New York Academy of Sciences" (2006), ca dealtfel si in revista "Stiinta si Tehnica" (1997). Sunt "co-investigator" la cateva proiecte finantate de "Natl. Inst. of Health" si " Dept. of Defence" (USA).

Details:
Florin Despa, PhD, is with the Department of Surgery (Plastics) of The University of Chicago. He joined the faculty after completing his research training in physical chemistry at The Univ. of Chicago, Department of Chemistry where he published numerous papers in the area of protein folding and dynamics of water at biological interfaces. Prior to his arrival at The Univ. of Chicago in 2000, Dr. Despa was with The Department of Physics at K.U. Leuven where he was awarded with a postdoctoral fellow of the Foundation for Scientific Research – Flanders for studying physico-chemical properties of nano-systems. He was also a postdoctoral fellow of The Research Board of the K.U. Leuven and served as a research scientist in the Department of Theoretical Physics at The Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest. His current research studies focus on how water molecules next to proteins behave differently than ordinary water molecules, and how one can use magnetic resonance as a probe to determine the amount and nature of water-protein interaction and, specifically, to provide molecular-level information in clinical evaluation of injuries. He is also involved in studies aiming to understand cell crowding effects and their relation with thermodynamics of cellular proteins and the chaperone mechanism.

Publicații selectate:

* Raphael C. Lee, Florin Despa, Kimm J. Hamann, Cell Injury - Mechanisms, Responses and Repair, The New York Academy of Sciences, Raphael C. Lee, Florin Despa, Kimm J. Hamann, 2005.