Presentation of the Centre
Iași Regional Oncology Institute (ROI) is one of the three existing Romanian oncology institutes that offers medical assistance to patients with different types of tumors. Located in the North East part of the country, it is the only mono-specialty public institute that has been built and equipped at European standards after 1990 and has been effectively operating since March 2012.
The institute has 330 beds for continuous hospitalization, 56 beds for day hospitalization and over 1.500 employees. It is organized in 8 departments (Oncology, Radiation Therapy, Palliative Care, Surgery, Hematology, Pathology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine), 9 compartments (Pneumology, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Gastroenterology, Thoracic Surgery, ENT, Internal Medicine, Gynecology, Transplant) and offers several additional outpatient services such as Endocrinology (Radioactive Iodine Therapy). We have 7 pathology-oriented tumor boards that discuss over 150 cases per week.
Main Research Activities
ROI is involved in both clinical and preclinical research. Currently, over 40 on-going phase II and III clinical trials are active in our center. A new site dedicated for clinical research has opened in December 2024. TRANSCEND, our main preclinical research center, opened in 2016, has a modern infrastructure and can perform Flow Cytometry, Molecular Imaging, Cytogenetics, Molecular genetics, Molecular Biology, Proteomics and Imaging mass spectrometry, Bioinformatics, and Cell Culture.
Education
ROI works closely with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T Popa” Ia?i. A large part of the hospital’s physicians are involved in teaching and several of our Professors coordinate PhD students. Most of the physicians working in the northern region of Romania with cancer patients have been trained in our institute.