Conferences

Sunday, March 10, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Acad. Maya Simionescu will hold a conference with the theme A journey in the Land of Science and the World of Cells. Ticket price: 16 lei.

About the conference

I invite you to get away from everyday life for a while and to travel together to the Land of Science, in which the curious researchers are trying to understand the world around and within us, but also to the World of Cells, a world of small proportions, which you cannot see with the naked eye, but which is as complex and great as the universe.

I invite you on a journey into our own universe, populated by 10 -50 trillion cells that work, cooperate, keep us alive and make us what we are. I invite you to be your tour guide in a trip inside a cell, where the miracle of life lies hidden. We chose the itinerary, we only need to pack our bags, to take a map and to go in this fascinating journey.

About Acad. Maya Simionescu

She is the director of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", member of the Romanian Academy and other Academies and international organizations. She founded in 1979, together with Professor Nicolae Simionescu, the first and only institute of this kind in the country, selected, in the year 2000, as a Centre of Excellence in the European Community.

Maya Simionescu worked for 10 years with Prof. George Palade in the U.S. She was a Professor (Visiting Professor) for 20 years at the Yale University and Columbia University in the U.S. She is supervising a small group of talented researchers and is one of the most prominent figures in biomedical research in Romania.

Currently, based on the knowledge gained in the country and abroad, Maya Simionescu and her team are trying to figure out how, when and in what way the functions of a normal cell become aberrant and lead to cardiovascular disease - the main cause of death in developed countries, including Romania.

She has published over 500 scientific articles in prestigious journals in the world, which have been cited over 6500 times by other researchers.

She was awarded with the international prize "Louis and Arthur Lucian for research in circulatory diseases", McGill University, Montreal, Canada; the Sanofi Thrombosis Prize - for research in Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis; the Brazilian Presidency's Order of "Rio Branco - Comendador"; the special UNESCO Award - L'Oreal for Women in Science; the Romanian Presidency's Order of "Faithful Service" - Grand Cross; the National Order "Star of Romania" - in the rank of Grand Officer of the Romanian Presidency; the "Opera Omnia" Prize of the Ministry of Education and Research from Romania and other national and international awards.

She is a corresponding member of the Reial Acadèmia de Doctors of Catalonia, Spain, a honorary member of the Academy of Sciences from the Republic of Moldavia, Doctor Honoris Causa of the "Ovidius" University, Constanța, of the University of Medicine "Gr T. Popa", Iași and of the West University, Timişoara. 

Translated by: Izabella Feher