Biography
He received a Ph.D. in medicine from the University of Bucharest, were he also taught for several years. He continued his research and specialisation at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Moscow, under some of Ivan Pavlov's closest collaborators such as Pyotyr Kupalov. He was then a post-doc at the University of Rochester and subsequently a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain and scientific counselor and researcher at the Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB.
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