Ovidiu Balacescu received the Ph.D. degree in pharmacy from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca, in 2006. He was a Marie Curie Fellowship of genomics with the Gustave Roussy Institute, France, from 2003 to 2004, and several international trainings in microarray (mRNA and miRNA), qRT-PCR, bioinformatics, epigenetics, methylation, and miRNA::mRNA interactor identification and validation. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Experimental Pathology, The Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chricuta” Cluj-Napoca. He is focused on identifying relevant molecular markers in both tissue and blood, concerning cancer progression and prognosis, and studying treatment resistance mechanisms in different pathologies, including prostate, breast, and colon and cervical cancers. He has an extensive experience in fundamental and translational research, leading five national research projects in domain of cervical, prostate and breast cancer, but also international experience during an EORTC program focused on malignant melanoma.