Maksim Ionov, PhD

Education:

  • 1994 M.Sc. in biology, Tashkent State University in Uzbekistan, Department of Plant Protection. Phytopathology.
  • 2000 Ph.D. in biology, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Dr. of science in Biophysics and Bioorganic Chemistry
  • 2015- Dr. Sc. In biophysics. Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Associate Professor

Positions:

  • 2016- Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Associate Professor
  • 2007-2016 Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Postdoctoral fellowship
  • 2005-2007 Mirzo Ulugbek University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Department of Biophysics, postdoctoral fellowship. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, postdoctoral fellowship
  • 2000-2005 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, assistant
  • 1996-2000 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Ph.D. student

International collaboration

  • Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS, Toulouse, France;
  • Immunomolecular Biology Laboratory in Gregorio Marañon Hospital in Madrid, Spain;
  • Inorganic Chemistry Department, University of Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá, Spain;
  • University of Athens, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Greece;
  • Comenius Uniwersity of Bratislava, Slovakia;
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain;
  • Leibniz Institute für Polymerforschung in Dresden, Germany

Research interests

  • drug delivery
  • gene delivery
  • dendrimers as drug carriers
  • dendrimers as anti-prion agents
  • biophysics of biological and artificial membranes
  • polymer/protein – lipid membrane interaction

Publications

  1. Ionov M., Ihnatsyeu A., Michlewska S., Shcharbina N., Shcharbin D., Majoral J.P. Bryszewska M. Effect of dendrimers on selected enzymes - evaluation of nano carriers. Int. j. Pharm. 499 (2016) 247–254. IF 4.090.
  2. Ionov M., Lazniewska J., Dzmitruk O.,Halets I., Loznikova S., Novopashina D., Apartsin E., Krasheninina O., Venyaminova A., Milowska K., Nowacka O., Gomez-Ramirez R., de la Mata F.J., Majoral J.P., Shcharbin D., Bryszewska M. Anticancer siRNA cocktails as a novel tool to treat cancer cells. Part (A). Mechanisms of interaction, Int. J. Pharm. 485 (2015) 261–269. IF 4.090.
  3. Ionov M, Ciepluch K., Garaiova Z., Melikishvili S., Michlewska S., Glińska S., Balcerzak L., Miłowska K, Shcharbin D., Gomez-Ramirez R., de la Mata F.J., Waczulikova I., Bryszewska M., Hianik T. Dendrimers complexed with HIV-1 peptides interact with liposomes and lipid monolayers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Biomembr. 1848 (2015) 907-915. IF 3.802.
  4. Ionov M., Ciepluch K., Klajnert B., Glinska S., Gomez-Ramirez R., Javier de la Mata F., Munoz-Fernandez M.A., Bryszewska M. Complexation of HIV derived peptides with carbosilane dendrimers. Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces 101 (2013) 236– 242. IF 3.354.
  5. Ionov M., Garaiova Z., Waczulikova I., Wróbel D., Pędziwiatr-Werbicka E., Gomez-Ramirez R., de la Mata F.J., Klajnert B., Hianik T., Bryszewska M. siRNA carriers based on carbosilane dendrimers affect zeta potential and size of phospholipid vesicles. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1818 (2012) 2209–2216. IF4.494.