Adriana Ciocalteu, MD, PhD, is a researcher at Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Craiova and teaching assistant at the Department of Gastroenterology from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova. She has expertise in digestive endoscopy using Narrow Band Imaging and Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy. She participated in research projects which assess the malignant pathology of digestive system using state-of-the-art techniques, and she attended various national and international gastroenterology meetings concerning novel imaging methods. Some of her research initiatives in the field of gastrointestinal oncology were awarded (National Scholar Award and Travel Grant for clinical scientist of 40 years of age and below for best submitted abstracts offered by United European Gastroenterology during the 22nd UEG Week, Vienna, Austria; prize offered by Romanian Society of Digestive Endoscopy, in 2014- Feasibility study for the evaluation of morphopatological pattern of neoangiogenesis in human colorectal cancer using confocal laser endomicroscopy and targeted anti- CD105 antibodies). Her PhD thesis addresses, explores and improves the latest colorectal cancer studies, relying on neoangiogenesis assessment through novel promising clinical tools. The thesis (Evaluation of angiogenesis in patients with colorectal carcinoma by using ex vivo-in vivo confocal laser endomicroscopy and immunohistochemistry) based on several published papers in ISI web of Science journals, reveals important features of the malignant colorectal microvasculature pattern by using a reproducible method and endothelial markers. Until now, she communicated, published and participated in writing more than 50 papers, several of them in high impact publications. She also performed peer-review activity in ISI journals (Plos ONE).