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CURRICULUM VITAE

I PERSONALINFORMATIONFamily name: TatuFirst names: Calin A.Date of birth:

II EDUCATIONANDQUALIFICATIONSSenior lecturer, Discipline: Immunology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, TimisoaraSpecialist: Immunology, Clinical laboratory

III AREASOFINTERESTINRESEARCHEtiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy, geomedicine (medical geology)

SCIENTIFICAWARDSTwo First Prizes: National Biology Contest (1989, Romania)Becton Dickinson fellowship for training in flow-cytometry -12/1993, Heidelberg, Germany

IV GRANTSCLG NATO grants: 2001, 2002, 2003 for research on the Balkan endemic nephropathy

V AFFILIATIONTOPROFESSIONALASSOCIATIONSMember of the Romanian Society of ImmunologyMember and official adviser of the International Working Group of Medical Geology

VI FOREIGNLANGUAGESEnglish

VII WORKSPUBLISHED5 books, 14 articles published in indexed reviews, and 25 papers presented at scientific conventions

BOOKS

Tatu, CA, Orem WH et al. (2003), Organic Compounds Derived from Pliocene Lignite and the Etiology ofBalkan Endemic Nephropathy, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap (Skinner HCW, Berger AR, eds.), Oxford

University Press, Oxford.ARTICLES1. Orem, W.H., Tatu, C.A., et al.(2003), Health Effects from Toxic Organic Compounds from Coal: fromRomania to Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Medical Geology Newsletter No.7. , Uppsala, Sweden.2. Robert B. Finkelman, William Orem, Vincent Castranova, Calin A. Tatu, Harvey E. Belkin, Baoshan Zheng,Harry E. Lerch, Susan V. Maharaj, Anne L. Bates (2002) Health Impacts of Coal and Coal Use: PossibleSolutions, International Journal of Coal Geology 50: 425- 4433. Orem, W.H., Tatu, C.A., Feder, G.L., Finkelman, R.B., Lerch, H.E., Maharaj, S., Szilagyi, D., Dumitrascu, V.,Paunescu, V. and Margineanu, F.(2002), Environment, Geochemistry, and the Etiology of Balkan EndemicNephropathy: Lessons from Romania, Facta Universitatis, Medicine and Biology 9, 39-46.4. Feder, G.L., Tatu, C.A., Orem, W.H., Paunescu, V., Dumitrascu, V., Szilagyi, D., Finkelman, R.B.,Margineanu, F., Schneider, F.: 2002, Weathered Coal Deposits and Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, FactaUniversitatis, Medicine and Biology 9,34-38.5. Orem, W.H., Tatu, C.A, Health Effects of Toxic Organic Compounds from Coal: the Case of Balkan

Endemic Nephropathy (BEN), US Geological Survey Fact Sheet 004-01, April 2001.6. Tatu C, Clarke SH (2000), Selective Maturation of VH12 B Cells in the Spleen Enriches for Anti-phos-phatidyl Choline B Cells: Evidence for Receptor Editing, Curr Top Microbiol Immunol, 252:77-86.7. Tatu, C., Ye, J., Arnold, L.W., Clarke, S.H. (1999), Selection at Multiple Checkpoints Focuses V(H)12 B CellDifferentiation toward a Single B-1 Cell Specificity, J Exp Med., 190: 903-914.8. Arnold, L.W., McCray, S.K., Tatu, C., Clarke, S.H. (2000), Identification of a Precursor to PhosphatidylCholine-specific B-1 Cells Suggesting that B-1 Cells Differentiate from Splenic Conventional B Cells in Vivo:Cyclosporin A Blocks Differentiation to B-1, J. Immunol., 164: 2924-2930.9. Tatu, C.A., Orem W.H., Feder, G.L., Finkelman R.B., Szilagyi D.N., Dumitrascu V, Margineanu F., Paunescu,V.(2000), Additional Support for the Role of the Pliocene Lignite Derived Organic Compounds in the Etiologyof Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, J. Med. Biochem., 4: 95-101.10. Tatu, C.A., Orem, W.H., Feder, G.L., Paunescu, V., Dumitrascu, V., Szilagyi, D.N., Finkelman, R.B.,Margineanu, F., Schneider, F.: (2000), Balkan Endemic Nephropathy Etiology: a Link to the GeologicalEnvironment, Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 6,138-150.

11. Tatu C. A., Orem W. H., Finkelman R. B., Feder G. L. (1998), The Etiology of Balkan EndemicNephropathy: Still More Questions than Answers, Environ. Health Perspect. 106:689-700.12. Tatu C. A., Drugarin D, Paunescu V, Stanescu D. I., Schneider F. (1998), Balkan Nephropathy, theHaematopoietic System and the Environmental Connection, Food Chem Toxicol 36:245-247.13. Simon Z, Tatu C. A., (1998), Immunologic Tolerance: Self-nonself Discrimination vs. CostimulatoryFactors and Second Signals, Med Hypotheses 51:1-3.14. Tatu C. A., Paunescu V, Stanescu D. I., Schneider Fr (1997), P glycoprotein Mediated Multidrug Resistance

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