Mihnea Boștină
Dr. Mihnea Boștină is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Academic Director of the Otago Center for Electron Microscopy. He previously worked as a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, at Harvard Medical School in the US and at Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik in Frankfurt, Germany.
Dr. Boștină’s lab conducts research focusing on understanding molecular architectures and relating those structures to their functional mechanisms, currently exploring bacteriophages, the Seneca Valley Virus, Iridovirus and Oryctes nudivirus. With only three oncolytic viral drugs approved on the market at the moment, Dr. Boștină and his colleagues are working on furthering research and knowledge in this field and developing the next generation of oncolytic viral drugs.