CGDI - supporting the achondroplasia community!

  On October 21, 2025, Prof. Dr. Maria Puiu and Adrian Nicolae Buzatu were invited and participated in the event organized at the Parliament Palace, dedicated to the Achondroplasia Day, initiated by the Association of Little People and the National Network of Expertise in the Management of Achondroplasia and Skeletal Dysplasias. The event brought together doctors, patients, authorities and organizations

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CGDI at Expert Days CCIFER 2025 - Innovation and collaboration for the future of health

Prof. PhD Maria Puiu, Deputy Director General of the Institute for Research and Development in Genomics (ICDG), represented the Institute as a speaker at the CCIFER Expert Days: Innovation and Franco-Romanian collaboration in the field of health, held on Monday, October 27, 2025, in Bucharest. Together with health leaders such as Alexandru Rogobete - Minister of Health, Carmen Orban -

Outstanding participation at the National Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition - Sibiu, October 16-19, 2025

The CGDI was represented by Prof. Dr. Maria Puiu, Deputy Director General of the Institute, who gave a presentation at the congress on "Pediatric nutrition and gastroenterology in the era of genomic medicine" In this paper, Prof. Dr. Maria Puiu highlighted the importance of integrating genomics into modern pediatric medicine, highlighting how new genomic discoveries can

Together for science, medicine and patients: Run for Genomics 2025

A project initiated by Director General Octavian Bucur more than a year ago, which was the first project of the Genomic Events group within the CGDI, launched in 2024 through a competition organized with the support of SSMB.In the last month of the event, the project was consolidated and expanded by Deputy Directors Maria Puiu and Maria Puiu

CGDI at HealthTech Forum 2025 - Innovation and education in genomics and artificial intelligence

On October 9-10, 2025, the CGDI team was present at the HealthTech Forum, an event held in Bucharest, which brought together researchers, government leaders and private sector representatives around technology and artificial intelligence applied to health. Conf univ. Dr. Relu Cocos, coordinator of the genomic sequencing activity in the CGDI, together with his team, presented

Prof. Dr. Maria Puiu, a geneticist and Deputy Director General of the CGDI, gave a presentation at the SNPCAR Congress, entitled "Genomics in pediatric neurology: the role of the Institute for Research-Development in Genomics in access to genetic diagnosis"

The Institute for Research-Development in Genomics (ICDG) was represented at the XXV Congress of the Romanian Society of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry (SNPCAR) and the 47th National Conference of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Psychiatry and Associated Professions, held in Brasov, Romania, on September 24-27, 2025. During the event, Prof. Dr. Dr.

Interview on Radio Romania Cultural (Octavian Bucur and Adrian Buzatu): How DNA science can save lives and transform medicine in Romania

Genomics is no longer just a science of the future, but a reality that is beginning to radically change medicine and the way diseases are diagnosed and treated. At the Institute for Research and Development in Genomics in Bucharest (https://genomica.gov.ro/), two of the leaders in this field in Romania - Octavian Bucur, Director General and Adrian-Nicolae Buzatu, Deputy Director General -

The CGDI team represented Romania at the European 1+MG, GDI and associated event focused on personalized medicine in Copenhagen

  . Between September 8-10, 2025, the Director General of the CGDI, Dr. Octavian Bucur, together with Dr. Mircea Crețu, coordinator of the bioinformatics team at the CGDI, represented Romania at two European reference meetings in the field of genomics and data infrastructures. Dr. Octavian Bucur attended the meeting "1+ Million Genomes", a European project

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Interview on Radio Romania Cultural (Prof. Maria Puiu and Dr. Mircea Iliescu): How DNA science can save lives and transform medicine in Romania

Genomics, the science that deciphers DNA to understand and treat disease, is no longer just a subject for research labs, but is becoming a real necessity in modern medicine. In Romania, the Institute for Research and Development in Genomics in Bucharest (https://genomica.gov.ro/) aims to bring this revolution closer to patients through a unique initiative: a cross-country race

CGDI team attended the National Conference "Integrated care for patients with rare diseases"

Genomics brings local solutions with global impact for rare disease patients! At the Conference "Integrated Care for Patients with Rare Diseases - Local Solutions, Global Impact" (Zalău, September 20-21, 2025), the Institute for Research and Development in Genomics (ICDG) was present through Prof. Univ. Dr. Maria Puiu and Adrian Nicolae Buzatu. We talked about Romania's participation in