Another medical hero in our series is the Romania-born American cell biologist George Emil Palade, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1974. Palade was born in Iași, one of the oldest Romanian cities and an effervescent cultural and academic center, in 1912, as the second son of a university philosophy professor and a schoolteacher. He studied at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Medicine, where he showed a keen interest in the anatomy courses of Professor

The heir of one of the oldest Romanian ruling families descending from Byzantine emperors, Ion Cantacuzino (1863-1934) is one of our greatest medical figures, author of consequential research and creator of crucial institutions. In Romania, the first vaccines – against typhoid fever, cholera, diphtheria, and tuberculosis – were produced in his laboratories, in a time when their availability was, as it is today, a matter of life and death. Ion Cantacuzino was born on November,

As the pandemic rages on, it is time we remembered some great heroes of the medical front, whose extraordinary discoveries, coming in times of distress like the one we’re living now, helped save innumerable lives. And we’ll start with the brilliant pathologist Victor Babeș, the proponent of some crucial methods of medical investigation and treatment that helped eradicate epidemics and form the basis of today’s medical practice around the world. Author of ground-breaking resea