Dr. Michael-Bogdan Mărgineanu

Michael-Bogdan Mărgineanu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London and lecturer in Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara. Previously, he carried out postdoctoral research studies at the Center for Gene and Cell Therapies in Cancer Treatment OncoGen Timișoara, within the INSPIRED research project that focuses on the development of effective methods of allergen-specific immunotherapy and diagnostic kits for patients with ragweed allergy, a major public health problem in Romania (www.oncogen.ro).

Michael completed his PhD studies in the group of Professor Pierre Magistretti, Division of Biosciences, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He completed his master’s studies in the group of Professor Timothy Ravasi at KAUST, and his undergraduate studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.

Michael-Bogdan has participated in research projects as a Visiting Scientist at the APC Microbiome Institute, Cork, Ireland and at the University of Cambridge, UK, and was nominated as one of 600 young researchers from 84 countries to participate in the 68th Meeting of Nobel Prize Laureates in Lindau, dedicated to Physiology and Medicine.