George Adrian Calin, M.D., Ph.D. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

George Adrian Calin received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Carol Davila University of Medicine in Bucharest, Romania. After working cytogenetics as undergraduate student with Dr. Dragos Stefanescu in Bucharest, he completed cancer genomics training in Dr. Massimo Negrini's laboratory at University of Ferrara, Italy. In 2000 he became a postdoctoral fellow at Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA, in Dr. Carlo Croce's laboratory.

He is presently an Associate Professor in Experimental Therapeutics at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. His areas of interest are the roles of microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs in cancer initiation and progression, as well as the mechanisms of cancer predisposition and exploring new RNA therapeutic options for cancer patients.