CURRICULUM VITAE

I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name: Tatu
First names: Calin A.
Date of birth:
II. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Senior lecturer, Discipline: Immunology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara
Specialist: Immunology, Clinical laboratory
III. AREAS OF INTEREST IN RESEARCH
Etiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy, geomedicine (medical geology)
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
Two First Prizes: National Biology Contest (1989, Romania)
Becton Dickinson fellowship for training in flow-cytometry -12/1993, Heidelberg, Germany
IV. GRANTS
CLG NATO grants: 2001, 2002, 2003 for research on the Balkan endemic nephropathy
V. AFFILIATION TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the Romanian Society of Immunology
Member and official adviser of the International Working Group of Medical Geology
VI. FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English
VII. WORKS PUBLISHED
5 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 of
Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap (Skinner HCW, Berger AR, eds.), Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
ARTICLES
1. Orem, W.H., Tatu, C.A., et al.(2003), Health Effects from Toxic Organic Compounds from Coal: from
Romania 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: Possible
Solutions, International Journal of Coal Geology 50: 425- 443
3. 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 Endemic
Nephropathy: 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, Facta
Universitatis, 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 Cell
Differentiation 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 Phosphatidyl
Choline-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 Etiology
of 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 Geological
Environment, 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 Endemic
Nephropathy: 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, the
Haematopoietic System and the Environmental Connection, Food Chem Toxicol 36:245-247.
13. Simon Z, Tatu C. A., (1998), Immunologic Tolerance: Self-nonself Discrimination vs. Costimulatory
Factors 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
Assessment by Flow cytometry in Malignant Hemopathies, Anticancer Res, 17:2583 2586.