Levkin Research Group of Biofunctional Materials

Dr. Anna Popova is a head of biological sub-group in the Multifunctional Materials Systems research laboratory at the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS-FMS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany led by Prof. Pavel Levkin. She graduated from the department of Cell Biology and Immunology of the Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia and obtained her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology in at University of Heidelberg, Germany. Since January 2014 Dr. Popova started at KIT as a project leader and head of the biology sub-group. Dr. Popova is the co-founder of Aquarray GmbH.

Her research is focused on developing novel in vitro systems for high throughput screenings and personalized medicine. The topics in the BIO sub-group include:

• Personalized oncology: developing highly miniaturized protocols and workflows for personalized drug sensitivity and resistance testing of patient-derived cancer cells
• Seq-on-a-Chip: developing protocols for nucleic acid isolation and manipulation from live cells cultured on a chip in nanolitre droplets, followed by sequencing
• Proteomics-on-a-Chip: developing protocols for protein isolation and digestion from live cells followed by LC-MS analysis of cell proteome
• hiPSC (human induced pluripotent stem cells): developing assays for high throughput screening of hiPSC against different stimuli with the aim to control pluripotency and differentiation of hiPSCs
• Complex 3D cell culture models (spheroids, organoids, tumoroids, co-culture, complex systems) in high throughput nanolitre format
• Microbiological applications and multi-drug resistance: high throughput antibiotic screenings & personalized antibiotic sensitivity test

 Current position                                                            

 Project Leader

Project Leader

Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems-

Functional and Molecular Systems (IBSC-FMS), 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

 Department of Dermatology and Allergology

University Medical Centre Mannheim

University of Heidelberg

 Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics

University Hospital Charite

Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia

Institute for Virus Research

Kyoto University

Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis

Institute for Carcinogenesis

Blokhin Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Department of Cell Biology and Immunology

Microbiology, with excellence