Ovidiu Balacescu received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 2003. He is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Experimental Pathology, The Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”. His research interests mainly focus on cancer research, breast, colorectal, cervical, genomics; colorectal cancer progression and its liver metastases; microRNA-150-5p in prostate cancer.