Stefana Petrescu
Dr. Stefana M. Petrescu is a graduate of the University of Bucharest, postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and member of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute. She is currently Director of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy and Head of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology. She contributed to the understanding of glycan-mediated recognition of glycoproteins by chaperone systems and the quality control of glycoprotein folding. More recently her research is focused on the discovery of the proteins that recruit immature and misfolded proteins for the degradative pathway.