Manuela Banciu is Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She got a PhD at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2007. In 2008, she obtained the Euro-Ph.D. in Advanced Drug Delivery awarded by Galenos Network in Pharmaceutical Science.  At present she has been leading the group of Nanomedicine and since 2022 has been the Coordinator of Section II (UBBMed-G) within the School of Health, UBBMed, UBB. 

The main topic of the research developed within the Nanomedicine group is focused on the development of the tumor-targeted therapeutic strategies based on “re-education” of immune cells belonging to the tumor microenvironment to fight against cancer.