Oana Popa
Associate Director/Head of Neuropharmacology @ Draig Therapeutics
About
Experienced project and team leader with over 17 years of drug discovery experience in pharmaceutical industry and academic settings. Strong expertise and proven track record in preclinical drug discovery research, ion channels pharmacology and electrophysiology. Worked on a broad range of ion channel targets in psychiatric, neurodegenerative, pain, respiratory, oncology, metabolism and cardiovascular disease areas.
United Kingdom
West Sussex
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals, Cognitive Neuroscience, Electrophysiology, Drug Discovery, Assay Development, Cell Physiology, Ion Channels, Biophysics, Channelopathies, In Vitro, Pharmaceutical Industry, Target Identification, Conventional Patch Clamp, Automated Electrophysiology, Cell Culture, Primary Cells, Primary Neuronal Cultures, Immunofluorescence, Single Channel Recordings, Patch-clamp
Experience
Associate Director/Head of Neuropharmacology
Draig Therapeutics
Head of Biology
Draig Therapeutics
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Project Lead/Research Fellow
Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University
Project Lead/Research Fellow
Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, University of Sussex
• Responsible for the delivery of two neuroscience drug discovery projects, providing scientific and managerial leadership. The programmes are aimed at developing non-sedative anxiolytics for GAD treatment and cognitive enhancers to treat the cognitive deficit associated with Huntington’s disease respectively. • Leading multi-disciplinary teams formed of biologists, chemists and DMPK scientists. • Managing and coordinating external contract research organisations links and activities. • Managing collaborative preclinical behavioural pharmacology research with other universities. • Delivering lectures in the ‘Molecular Pharmacology’ module at University of Sussex
Lead biologist/Research Fellow
Sussex Drug Discovery Centre
Delivered with my team biology data that led to successful applications for funding of drug discovery programmes by Wellcome Trust and MRC.
Senior Research Scientist
University of Portsmouth
Team Head - Electrophysiology Group
Novartis
Team Head - Conventional Patch Clamp Group
Novartis
Research Scientist
Novartis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Ulm
Education
Ulm University
Structure function studies on sodium and calcium channels related to myotonia and epilepsy
University of Bucharest
Biophysics
University of Bucharest
Physics
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