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Mihnea Nicolescu

Mihnea Nicolescu MD, DMD, PhD, OMFS, MSc, FRMS

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Dr. Nicolescu (DOB: February 10, 1979) is a lecturer, researcher, and science communicator. After graduation in both Stomatology (2003) and Medicine (2006) at the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania he was certified as an oral-maxillo-facial specialist surgeon in 2009. His Ph.D. in Medical Sciences followed in 2012, with a thesis on Telocytes in Pancreas and Salivary Glands. After graduating top-of-the-class from the Regenerative Dentistry MSc at King’s College London, London, UK (2015), remained in close contact, as a visiting lecturer with the Mucosal and Salivary BiologyDivision. He is the organizer of the first Romanian Module on Regenerative Dentistry – an optional course for 5th-year Dentistry students in Bucharest (since 2017). As a Science Communicator, he won the Romanian FameLab Competition and the AudiencVote Winner in FameLab International Final (Cheltenham, UK, 2018)Currently serving as the Chair of HistologyDivision, his publication record includes more than 25 scientific peer-reviewed publications, 100+ communications, 25 invited lectures and2 published book chapters, with more than 1,000 citations and an H-index of 12.Research interests: Regenerative dentistry, Telocytes, Translational education