Projects and grants

  1. 2022-2026 CA21170: Prevention, anticipation and mitigation of tick-borne disease risk applying the DAMA protocol (PRAGMATICK) (Vice-Chair)
  2. 2023-2024 OC/EFSA/BIOHAW/2022/01: Wildlife and One Health: wildlife ecology, health surveillance and interaction with livestock, human population and environment (Principal Investigator - Romania)
  3. 2021-2022 NPB Project #21-067: Evaluation of African Swine Fever virus nucleic acid detection dynamics in swine in oral fluid samples collected after the detection of the presence of the ASF virus in pigs from commercial establishments (Principal Investigator)
  4. 2023 CNFIS-FDI-2023-F-0628: Internaționalizare prin excelență, vizibilitate și digitizare (Project coordinator)
  5. 2022 CNFIS-FDI-2022-0040: Excelență prin internaționalizare la USAMV Cluj-Napoca (Project coordinator)
  6. 2021-2022 University of Copenhagen 29979812: African Swine Fever & hematophagous insect vectors experiments in Romania (Principal Investigator)
  7. 2021-2024
  8. GP/EFSA/ALPHA/2021/04: Support to the Veterinary Services of Romania to investigate potential risk factors for African Swine Fever (ASF) incursion in commercial pig herds (Principal Investigator)
  9. 2021 CNFIS-FDI-2021-0013: Internaționalizarea post-pandemie la USAMV Cluj-Napoca (Project coordinator)
  10. 2020-2021 EWDA Grant: Are the vector-borne pathogens shared between the endangered European bisons and other ruminants? A case study from a re-introduction site in the Carpathian Mountains (Project coordinator)
  11. 2020 CNFIS-FDI-2020-0120: Sustainable internationalization at USAMV Cluj-Napoca (Project coordinator)
  12. 2019-2020 NP/EFSA/ALPHA/2019/03: Entomological survey to study the possible involvement of arthropod vectors in the transmission of African swine fever virus in Romania (Project coordinator)
  13. 2019-2023 ECDC/2019/020: European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, transmitting human and animal disease agents (VectorNet) (Principal Investigator)
  14. 2019 CNFIS-FDI-2019-0231: Increasing the visibility and international attractiveness of USAMV Cluj-Napoca (Project coordinator)
  15. 2018-2021 PCCDI-2017-0005: Multidisciplinary One Health excellence research platform for neglected and emerging vector-borne diseases (Project coordinator)
  16. 2018 CNFIS-FDI-2018-0321: Internationalization of the USAMV Cluj-Napoca campus (Project coordinator)
  17. 2015-2018 ECDC OJ/24/04/2014‐PROC/2014/013: Guidance, data collection and scientific advice on tick‐borne diseases (Project coordinator)
  18. 2013-2017 COST TD1303: EurNegVec - European Network for Neglected Vectors and Vector-borne Infections (Project coordinator)
  19. 2015-2017 TE 298/2015: Emerging tick-borne zoonoses in Romania: ecoepidemiology, genetic diversity and predictive models (Project coordinator)
  20. 2015-2018 ECDC/EFSA: European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, transmitting human and animal disease agents (VectorNet) (Invited expert)
  21. 2016 CNFIS-FDI-2016-0030: Internationalization of Agricultural and Veterinary Education and Research in Cluj-Napoca (Project coordinator)
  22. PNII-PCE 236/2011: Geospatial approach to the ecology, distribution and vectorial role of parasitic Arthropoda (Project coordinator)
  23. 2010-2013 PCCE 7/2010: Fundamental and applied studies on the ecoepidemiology, biology and molecular biology of Lyme Disease Vectors (Principal investigator)
  24. 2005-2006 Td: The study of Dracunculus oesophageus in snake of genus Natrix (Project coordinator)
  25. 2003-2004 Td: Biodiversity of parasitic fauna of wild reptiles (Project coordinator)

Team member

  • 2022-2023 SGA0202200004: Associations between protists and bacteriome in the gut ecosystem of household dogs and their owners across a transition to modern lifestyle (local collaborator)
  • owners across a transition to modern lifestyle
  • 2019-2020 NP/2019/OCS9603: Support to ECDC and EU Member States on Lyme borreliosis surveillance and expert advice on tick borne diseases (expert)
  • 2018-2022 COST CA17108 "Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes (AIM)" (Management Committee member, Training School Coordinator, STSM Coordinator, Core Group Member)
  • 2014-2018 COST FA1408 "A European Network for Foodborne Parasites (Euro-FBP)" (Management Committee member)
  • 2014-2018 COST TD1404 "Network for Evaluation of One Health (NEOH)" (Management Committee member)
  • 2013-2017 COST TD1302 "European Network on Taeniosis/Cysticercosis" (Management Committee member)
  • 2014-2015 POSDRU/155/1.2/S/136180 Internationalization, Equity and University Management for Higher Quality Education (IEMU)
  • 2013-2015 PNII-PCCA-110/2012 A prophylactic strategy for coccidiosis in broilers by using an Artemisia annua extract
  • 2011-2014 CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0288 Internationalization of veterinary education as a way to European employment market
  • 2008-2011 PN II Molecular epidemiology of cystic echinococcosis in humans and animals from south and north-western Romania
  • 2008-2010 PN II 52-177/2008 Epidemiology, diagnosis pathogenesis and immunology in bovine and canine neosporosis in north-western, central and southern Romania
  • 2008-2009 PN II 82/CPI/5.09.2008 Development of a research centre and reference laboratory for parasitic zoonoses in Transylvania
  • 2007-2010 PN II 51-034/2007 Epidemiological chains and control possibilities in human and animal cryptosporidiosis
  • 2007-2009 CNMP PC 51-072 Improved methods for identification of food colorants in beverages
  • 2007-2008 CNCSIS Immunological diagnosis (ELISA), molecular epidemiology, phytotherapy and immune prophylaxis in eimeriosis of chicken and quail
  • 2006-2008 CEEX 99/2006 Evaluation and interdisciplinary optimizing of screening, diagnosis and treatment of echinococcosis and trichinellosis in humans and animals from central and north-western Romania
  • 2006-2008 CEEX 121/2006 Connecting Romania to the European network of research, surveillance and control of emergent infectious and parasitic diseases in wildlife
  • 2006-2007 CEEX 78/2006 Building a national network for studying parasitic zoonoses and their role in food security
  • 2005-2008 CNCSIS A/1130 Parasitic fauna of game avian species: mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Eurasian coot (Fulica atra) and great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) from Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
  • 2004-2005 World Bank Optimizing the technology of production and implementing the European concept of food safety in dairy farms from Alba, Bihor and Cluj Counties