Mircea Leabu

The world is a mirror of Infinite Beauty, yet no man sees it.
Lumea este o oglindă a Frumuseții Infinite, deși nici un om nu o vede.

― Thomas Traherne

PROFFESION

Office Address: 7, Leonida Street, 2nd Sector, Bucharest, Romania
Home Address: 37, Unirii Blvd., 3rd Sector, Bucharest, Romania

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Positions

Internal Control and Quality Management Officer
Genomics Rsearch and Development Institute
Bucharest

Deputy Director and Principal Investigator (retired in 2023)
„Victor Babeş” National Institute of Pathology
Bucharest

Former positions in the Institute:
Scientific Secretary
Head of Cell Biology Laboratory

Associate Professor in Cell Biology (retired in 2018)
Cell Biology and Histology
“Carol Davila” University of Medicine & Pharmacy
Bucharest

Associate Member
Research Center for Applied Ethics
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Bucharest


Employment

2025 – PRESENT

Internal Control and Quality Management Officer

Genomics Rsearch and Development Institute
— Specialized consultancy for the organization of the managerial internal control system.

 

 


— Leader of a Group for debates in bioethics; co-superviser for PhD Students in Applied Ethics.
— Research in Applied Ethics, with emphasis on Bioethics and Research Ethics.

 

 

2005 – 2023

Deputy Director and Principal Investigator,
former positions:
Scientific Secretary,
Head of Cell Biology Laboratory

“Victor Babeş” National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania


— Management of research projects and research activity in the lab.
— Areas: cell motility, cell signaling by integrins, cytoskeletal organization/reorganisation, cell invasion and metastasis, antitumoral drugs development.

 

 

2000 – 2005

Postdoctoral Fellow (2000 — 2003)
Visiting Scientist (starting with 2003)

Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Bosco Chan’s Lab)


— Research Field: Mechanisms for cell morphology and motility controlling by integrins.

 

 

1991 – 2020

Assistant Professor (1991 — 2003)
Associate Professor (starting with 2003)
Retired & Collaboration (Part time from 2018, April 1)

„Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest


— Courses and tutorials in cell biology. Tutorials in histology.
— Research in cardiac pathology (miocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury). Management of Research Projects

 

 


— Research on endothelial cell, electron microscopy, experimental models on atherogenesis, biochemical technics.


Education

2010 — 2013

Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral studies on Research Ethics in translational medicine and transplantation.
„Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest








1992 — 1998

PhD in Medical Biochemistry
Biochemical changes induced by ischaemia-reperfusion injury type in myocardium.
„Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest

1972 — 1976

MS in Chemistry, pure chemistry
„Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iassy.
Grade: 9.93 (Head of the class @ national level)

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