Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu received PhD degrees from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A., (2004) and from the “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2005), followed by a postdoctoral stage at the University of Essex in England. Since 2007 he is an Associate Professor at the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, where since 2012 he has also been President of the Scientific Council of the BBU. He has served in the Chemistry and Biochemistry/Biology Commissions of the Romanian National Council for Accreditation of University Degrees and Titles and of the National Council for Scientific Research, respectively. His research interests are centered on inorganic biochemistry, computational chemistry, oxidative and nitrosative stress, blood substitutes, anticancer drugs, natural extracts, biopolymer structure, scientometrics, and cultural studies.