12 National and International Research Projects, as follows:
Demonstration Experimental Project (PED) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Ready-to-use flexible wound dressing with synergistic photothermal and antimicrobial capabilities
Acronym: SmartWoundPatch
Project number: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-3342
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Research Assistant/ Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: 2022 - 2024
Demonstration Experimental Project (PED) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Portable Plasmonic Nanochip for Fast-On-Site Cardiac Troponin Biomarker Quantitative Diagnostic Test
Acronym: NanoFastDiag
Project number: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-3345
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student - Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: 2020 - 2022
Demonstration Experimental Project (PED) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Theranostic microplatforms for multimodal therapy of human ocular pathologies, a new paradigm in biomedical applications
Acronym: MicroPlatThera
Project number: PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-4558
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student - Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: 2020 - 2022
Research projects to stimulate young independent teams (TE) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Flexible PDMS-integrated Plasmonic Paper as Versatile Nanochip for Metal Enhanced Fluorescence Biosensing
Acronym: Chip4MEF
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1959
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student - Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: 2020 - 2022
Complex Frontier Research Projects (PCCF) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: New Targeted Optical Imaging NanoProbes for Near-Infrared (NIR) Real-Time (RT) Image-Guided Surgery of Ovarian Cancer
Acronym: NanoNIRSurgery
Project number: PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0142
Project Leader: Professor Emeritus Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy PhD. Simion Astilean
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student - Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: 2018 - 2022
Complex projects carried out in RDI consortia (PCCDI) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Emerging molecular technologies based on micro and nano-structured systems with biomedical applications
Acronym: TehnoBioMed
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0010
Project Leader: Professor Emeritus Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy PhD. Simion Astilean
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student
Period: 2018 - 2020
Research projects to stimulate young independent teams (TE) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Designing new, flexible and low-cost paper-based sensing nanoplatforms through plasmonic calligraphy for performing multiplexed ultrasensitive detection of cancer biomarkers
Acronym: NanoDet4ALL
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2095
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student
Period: 2018 - 2020
Exploratory Research Projects (PCE) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: The development of nanoplatforms with enhanced therapeutic potential by the synergistic integration of multiple anticancer nanotherapies which are optically activated in the near-infrared region (NIR)
Acronym: NanoSynTher
Project number: PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0837
Project Leader: Professor Emeritus Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy PhD. Simion Astilean
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student
Period: 2017 - 2019
Bilateral Research Project “Constantin Brancusi”– UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Development of highly sensitive and specific nanobiosensors based on vibrational spectroscopic methods for the in vitro detection of proteins used in diagnostic
Acronym: NanoBioSensor
Project number: PN-III-CEI-BIM-PM-2016-2018
Project Leader: Professor Emeritus Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy PhD. Simion Astilean
Position: Research Assistant/ PhD Student
Period: 2017 - 2018
Research projects to stimulate young independent teams (TE) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: FRET process modulation in core-shell plasmonic nanoparticles in order to obtain efficient light sources
Project number: PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2102
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Technician – Research Assistant/ Master – PhD Student
Period: 2016 - 2018
Collaborative Project for Applicative Research (PCCA) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Microfluidic-plasmonic biosensor for the detection in real time of relevant biomarkers
Acronym: NanoFlu
Project number: PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1961
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Technician – Research Assistant/ Master – PhD Student
Period: 2016 - 2018
Demonstration Experimental Project (PED) – UEFISCDI Romania
Title: Microfluidic platform for integrated plasmonic detection
Acronym: 2PlaMiDet
Project number: PN-II-CT-RO-FR-2014-2-0049
Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. CS I. Habil. PhD. Monica Focsan
Position: Technician/ Master Student
Period: 2015 - 2016