Ivona Mitu is Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Department of Morphofunctional Sciences II, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Grigore T. Popa". She holds a Clinical Pharmacist degree, with a PhD in Medical Science. Her skills and expertise include among others biomarker analysis, artificial neural network models, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, with focus on metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders.