Ladan Khodaparast
University of Leuven, Belgium
Biography
Ladan has completed her PhD in May 2017 from KU Leuven from department of Immunology and Microbiology and she currently works at the Faculty of Medicine, Switch Laboratory VIBâ€KU Leuven Centre for Brain & Disease Research Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Leuven. Based on the aggregation propensity of proteins, short-stretch peptides were designed that induce specific aggregation of​ bacterial proteins resulting in bacterial death. The aim of her project is to evaluate the possible toxicity and efficacy of these peptides in vitro and in vivo. Ladan has published more than 8 papers in reputed journals.