- 2023 - The project entitled " Plasmon
mediated biology: Exploitation of plasmonics to investigate and enhance
biological processes and application to biomedical issues", Project Code: CF
199/28.11.2022, led by Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, has been accepted for funding in the PNRR - Pillar III, Component C9, Investment I8. Development of a program to
attract highly specialised human resources from abroad in
research, development and innovation activities competition and will be implemented in our group in the Jul 2023 - Jun 2026 period - details

- 2023 - CS I Monica Focsan and master student Daria Stoia were awarded the Excellentia Teacher and Excellentia Student prizes at The Xth 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 1st Romanian Research Gala organized by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest on 31th 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 - The special issue entitled "Bridging molecules and nanoparticles - the way from optical spectroscopy to cancer therapy", edited by Vasile Chiș, Monica Focșan, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle and Rui Fausto, published in Journal of Molecular Structure (Elsevier), was dedicated to Prof. Simion Aștilean on the occasion of his 65th birthday and retirement from the Faculty of
Physics, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - details

- 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.
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2018 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded with an Advanced Fellowship from Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology- STAR-UBB Institute.
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2017 - CS I Cosmin Farcau was awarded 1st 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.
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2017 - CS III Ana-Maria Craciun was awarded with an Excellence Diploma in Scientific Research from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
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2016 - CS I Monica Focsan was awarded 2nd 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.
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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.