Ioana Ionuț has been a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy since October 2011. She obtained a PhD degree in 2014. Her skills and expertise include synthetic organic chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry; and the design and synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds with antimicrobial/antioxidant/antitumour activity. Her research interests include medicinal chemistry; drug design; organic synthesis; heterocyclic compounds; lipophilicity; PCA; K-means clustering; and peptide chemistry.