Dr. Mihaela Dinu currently works as a Professor at the Pharmaceutical Botany and Cell Biology and Directory of the Department I. Basic sciences within the Faculty of Pharmacy, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. She is also a Professor at this University. She is a Member of the Botanical Society of America, the Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. She was the Vice-president of the Association of Teaching Staff from the Faculty of Pharmacy (ACDFF). She earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1997. Her research interests include medicinal plants, use of ornamental plants for medicinal purposes, toxicity of plants, molecular docking and herbal pharmacokinetics.