Dr. Manuela Calin

Dr. Manuela Călin studied Physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated with an M.S. in Biophysics in 1996. She then joined the research group of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu”, Bucharest where she received her Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences in 2005 under the supervision of Dr. Maya Simionescu. Then she performed a 3-year post-doc in “Biomaterials: nanocarriers for controlled drug release” at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry “Petru Poni”, Iasi, Romania. She received her Habilitation degree in Biology and Biochemistry in 2021. She is currently a scientific researcher grade I, head of the “Medical and Pharmaceutical BioNanoTechnologies” laboratory, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu”. Her research interests lie within the field of Nanomedicine and are focused on the development of new and effective targeted drug delivery systems based on nanoparticles for cardiovascular diseases treatment. She received ten national and international prizes, and published 55 papers in ISI journals, cited >1700 times, h-index: 25 (as per Google Scholar).