With a double degree in Dentistry (2003) and General Medicine (2006), followed by a specialist degree in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery (2009), I pursued a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (2012). As a member of the first team to discover a new interstitial cell type, telocytes, regenerative medicine became a top priority on my research topic list. I graduated top of my class in a brand new MSc program in Regenerative Dentistry at King's College, London. Upon returning home, I established the first Romanian Module in Regenerative Dentistry, which is now a core part of dental students' educational curriculum at the Dental Faculty in Bucharest. Currently, I am the Chair of Histology at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, and also part of the research team in the Radiobiology Laboratory of Victor Babeș National Institute of Pathology in Bucharest, Romania. My current research interests are salivary gland regeneration and novel translational education methods.