Biography:

Dr. Ciubotaru studied Medicine at the School of Pharmacy and Medicine “UMF-Carol Davila” Bucharest  Romania and graduated as MS in 1992. He then joined in 1997 as a graduate student the research group of Prof. Gerald Koudelka at the University of Buffalo Biological Sciences USA. He received his PhD degree in 2000 at the same institution. After 3 years postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr. David G. Schatz at the Immunobiology Department Yale School of Medicine USA he obtained first an Associate Research Scientist position at the same department where he worked until 2012. In 2013 Dr. Ciubotaru returned to Romania as a Principal Investigator Senior Research Scientist at Colentina Clinical Hospital, Department of Immunology, Internal Medicine, Bucharest, Romania, where he currently works leading a team of six trainees (graduate students and postdocs) in Immunobiology. He has published more than 15 research articles in SCI(E) journals, and some of his developed work makes the object of 3 patents.