Dr. Simona Dima obtained her Ph.D. from Ovidius University of Constanța in 2006. She is now a Scientific Researcher at the Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania. Over the last decade, she has focused her studies on the oncogenic research of pancreatic cancer, colangiocarcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma, and she has been involved in clinical correlative studies. She was part of a team of researchers from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, and Koen Kaen University.