Anna Kula-Păcurar

Anna is a University Professor at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, (Kraków Poland). She earned her MSc degree from the University of Gdańsk (Poland) in 2005 and obtained her PhD from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste (Italy) in 2009. She then completed two postdoctoral fellowships: at ICGEB (2013) and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) (2016). After returning to Poland in 2017, she joined the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) of Jagiellonian University as an Assistant Professor. Since 2024, she is a group leader of Molecular Virology Laboratory at MCB. Her lab combines molecular and cell biology approaches to investigate the molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 and to identify potential strategies for controlling or eradicating the virus.