Florina Silvia Iliescu (MD, PhD) worked in biomedical higher education and research in Singapore and Romania. She is involved in didactic and research projects related to diagnostic and drug delivery systems, diagnostic imaging, patient care, prophylactic medicine, anatomy, histopathology, and biomechanics. She was the PI for several grants under the Ministry of Education Singapore (with clinical collaborations) for transdermal drug delivery, biomechanics, diagnostic imaging systems and the medical expert for projects that developed AI-based diagnostic systems in cardiology. As Head of Anatomy & Physiology and chair of several modules, she contributed to biomedically-oriented education, research and community projects (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Brahm Centre, Yale-NUS). While CS 1 at IMT she is Research Fellow with eBio-hub Research Centre and Adjunct Professor with the School of Material Sciences, National University for Science and Technology "Politehnica" of Bucharest. Her current research projects relate to nanotechnology-based diagnostic and drug delivery systems (microneedles), and education.