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2023 - CS I Monica Focsan and master student Daria Stoia were awarded the Excellentia Teacher and Excellentia Student prizes at The X^th edition of the Excellentia Awards, Babes-Bolyai University
2023 - The Nanobiophotonics and Laser Microspectroscopy Center, led by Prof. Dr. Simion Aștilean, was awarded the "Experienced Researchers - Teams" trophy at the 1^st Romanian Research Gala organized by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest on 31^th of January 2023 - details (starting from 1:30:00)
2022 - The results obtained in the project PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0142, entitled "New Targeted Optical Imaging NanoProbes for Near-Infrared (NIR) Real-Time (RT) Image-Guided Surgery of Ovarian Cancer" were disseminated in media on reportermedical.ro - details
2022 - Bachelor students Madalina Tudor, Mihnea Moruz and Vlad Cucuiet, coordinated by CS I Monica Focsan, were awarded with 1 year Special Scholarships for Research Activity, from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2022 - Prof. Dr. Simion Aștilean has been elected as a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy (Physical Science section), being included within the world's top 2% of the most cited researchers in the applied physics domain - in particular nanoscience and nanotechnology - details
2022 - Student Madalina-Maria Tudor was awarded with Best Poster Presentation Award at 17th National Conference of Biophysics, Tg. Mures, Romania, 23-25 September 2022.
2022 - PhD Andreea Campu was awarded with Best Presentation Award and Certificate of Attendance and Appreciation for Session Chair activity at ICMLC 2022: XVI. International Conference on Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip, 23-24 June 2022.
2022 - Student Markus Zetes was awarded with the Best Poster Presentation Award at International Conference of Analytical and Nanoanalytical Methods for Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, IC-ANMBES 2022, Brasov, Romania, 8-10 June 2022 - details
2021 - Master students Daria Stoia and Markus Zetes, coordinated by CS I Monica Focsan and CS III Ana-Maria Craciun, respectively, were awarded with 1 year Special Scholarships for Research Activity, from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2021 - PhD Andreea Campu was awarded with Danubius Young Scientist Award, 2021 - for Romania - details
2021 - The article "Gold nanoclusters performing as contrast agents for non-invasive imaging of tissue-like phantom via two-photon excited fluorescence lifetime imaging" , A.-M. Hada, A. M. Craciun, S. Astilean, published in Analyst, 2021, 146, 7126-7130 has been featured on the back cover of the article's issue.
2021 - The national patent "Microfluidic Plasmonic Device based on Gold Bipiyamidal Nanoparticles" by Monica Focsan, Andreea Campu, Simion Astilean, Teodora Murariu, Ioan Turcu, was awarded with Gold Medal at EuroInvent 13^th edition, Iasi, Romania.

2020 - Prof. Dr. Simion Astilean was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research for high-level International visibility, from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2020 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2020 - CS I Sanda Boca-Farcău was awarded with L’Oreal -UNESCO Fellowship “Women in Science”, section Physical Sciences - details
2020 - We are happy to announce that 4 project proposals have been accepted for funding in the National 2019 UEFISCDI Human Resources competitions: Young Research Teams projects (CS I Monica Focsan and CSIII Ana-Maria Craciun) and Postdoctoral Research projects (PhD Sorina Suarasan and PhD Andra-Sorina Tatar).
2020 - CS I Monica Focsan and CS II Monica Potara were awarded with Intern Advanced Fellowships from Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology- STAR-UBB Institute.
2020 - CS III Ana-Maria Craciun received Special Mention award and an Excellence Diploma in the national contest “The Rada Mihalcea Awards for Young Researchers in Science and Engineering”, 6th edition, Cluj-Napoca - details
2019 - CS I Cosmin Farcau was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2018 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with “Constantin Miculescu prize” of the Romanian Academy.
2018 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with an Advanced Fellowship from Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology- STAR-UBB Institute.
2017 - CS I Cosmin Farcau was awarded 1^st place and received an Excellence Diploma in the national contest “The Rada Mihalcea Awards for Young Researchers in Science and Engineering”, 3rd edition, Cluj-Napoca - details

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2017 - CS I Sanda Boca-Farcau received Special Mention award and an Excellence Diploma in the national contest “The Rada Mihalcea Awards for Young Researchers in Science and Engineering”, 3rd edition, Cluj-Napoca - details
2017 - CS I Cosmin Farcau was awarded with an Advanced Fellowship from Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology- STAR-UBB Institute.
2017 - CS III Ana-Maria Craciun was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2016 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded 2^nd place and received an Excellence Diploma in the national contest “The Rada Mihalcea Awards for Young Researchers in Science and Engineering”, 2nd edition, Cluj-Napoca - details

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2016 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2016 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with L’Oreal -UNESCO Fellowship “Women in Science”, section Physical Sciences - details

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2015 - CS II Monica Potara was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.

ISI journal covers featuring scientific articles published in our group
2013 - The project “Biofunctional nanoparticles for development of new methods of imaging, sensing, diagnostic and therapy in biological environment (CNCSIS ID_PCCE 129/2008, Prof. Dr. Simion Astilean as principal investigator) is featured in UEFISCDI brochure entitled: "Stories about Complex IDEA projects and successful people" – http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/articole/3465/Povesti-despre-IDEI-complexe-si-oameni-de-succes.html.