Darja Kanduc, PhD, as an Associate Professor of Biochemistry first in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and then in the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies, and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Italy, has published approximately 180 scientific papers. Her research deals with cancer, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases. Keywords of her research include peptidology, short peptide modules in biology and immunology, peptide–peptide interactions, peptide sharing between pathogens and the human host, peptide-based vaccines, and immunogenicity vs. immunotolerance. Her research results have converged into the Hydrophobicity Theory, according to which hydrophobicity and rarity characterize immunogenic short peptides (10.1159/000508903).
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