Mugurel Constantin Rusu is Head of the Division of Anatomy of the Faculty of Dentistry, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania. He has a PhD in Medicine and a PhD in Biology. He obtained also a Habilitation degree. He has published 237 full articles in journals on ISI Web of Science (All Databases), of which 134 papers are in the research area “Anatomy Morphology”, and 50 articles in journals indexed in international databases. He was awarded more than 35 awards for results in research, the Best Poster Prize awarded by the Anatomical Society in the Joint Meeting of Anatomical Societies (Bursa, Turkey 2011), and the Best Poster Paper awarded by the 17th Congress of European Association of Clinical Anatomy and 14th International Symposium of Clinical and Applied Anatomy in 2023. Some of his works are quoted in Gray’s Anatomy and Bergman’s Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation. His research interests are in the fields of stem cell niches, regenerative medicine, and variational anatomy.