Department of Cell Biology,  Molecular and Histology includes 26 academics which provide teaching of two compulsory for both series of students from Romanian and English teaching module (cell biology,  I year/ A  semester, Histology II year / two semesters) and an optional subjects (Molecular Medicine). Teaching activity consists of lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, seminars, practical exam and final oral exam at the end of each semester for compulsory or optional subject test.

The team of the department consists of experienced teachers both in education and in research or medical field, most members of discipline held concurrently with teaching, research in the laboratories of the National Institute of Pathology "Victor Babes" or having clinical integration in different hospitals.

The main direction of action of the discipline collective in education is to improve and diversify the teaching methods of courses and conducting demonstrations and practical work. Academics are working continually to modern design courses in an accessible and effective learning and focusing on health related implications. In practical work the main objective is the acquisition of skills from which students acquire the ability to maneuver easily the optical microscope and recognize examined histological structures.

The discipline team is concerned of regularly updating  courses and practical support by developing a multimedia platform represented by site discipline (www.histology.ro) for making available to students both relevant teaching material, as well as some scientific data and information topical and of great interest.

Development of printed materials, adapted to the requirements and particularities of the present situation, the type of ongoing support, atlas of cell biology / histology are also priority objectives in collective activity.

In scientific research there is a constant concern for developing collaborations and partnerships with other universities and research institutes, as well as exploitation of research results through the development and publication of books / chapters in publishing national and international publishing scientific papers in ISI , journals indexed in international databases or volumes national and international conferences.

The main research directions of team discipline are:

• The study of interstitial cells of Cajal-like / telocytes in various tissues and organs, with involvement in tissue regeneration;
• Modulating cellular behavior with real-time monitoring through various experimental modeling;
• Investigating the therapeutic potential of various natural or synthetic compounds in cell cultures.

Among the achievements of the impact of our discipline research note:

• The discovery of a new cell type called interstitial cell-kit / telocyte;
• Description of a new type of intercellular synapse (synapse stromal) made between telocyte and other cell types;
• Identification of anti-proliferative activity of compounds of transition metal complexes of physiologic

The research is based on confocal and electron microscopy studies, use of equipment for cell culture and biochemical investigations (electrophoresis, spectrophotometry).

Department Staff permanently aims to support students who wish to conduct research in the purview displinei, stimulating their participation in scientific meetings, hiring in drafting publications, etc.