Nicanor I. Moldovan, PhD

Bio

Dr. Moldovan received his MS in Biophysics from the University of Bucharest, Romania and his PhD in Cell Biology from the ‘N. Simionescu” Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology (co-founded by the late Nobel laureate George E. Palade) also in Bucharest, Romania. After a post-doctoral training in Cardiovascular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, he performed extensive Biomedical Engineering research at the Oho State University in Columbus, OH. Among other NIH and AHA funding, he won a very competitive RC2 ARRA ‘stimulus’ grant on the interaction of circulating vascular progenitor cells with polymeric micro-fibrils. Dr. Moldovan is the former founding Director of the 3D Tissue Bioprinting Laboratory at VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, IN, and of the 3D Bioprinting Core at IUSM, equipped with the state-of-the-art 'Regenova' bioprinter. To cover the bioprinter's cost, he securred a large NIH S10/Shared Instrument Grant award, on which he was the Principal Investigator. He was an Associate Editor of Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and currently serves as the Guest Editor for the Special Issue 'Biofabrication of Biologically Realistic Constructs' for the journal Bioengineering.