Alina Tantau, with a medical degree in Romania, upon her PhD in 2010 at University of Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Tantau Alina Ioana was nominated Professor in 2022 at Faculty of Medicine Cluj Napoca, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where she initiated a Hands On Endoscopy Programme for fellows and young specialists. Over the last 15 years, she has focused her scientific interests on the topics related with endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of early gastrointestinal cancers and diagnosis and therapy of inflammatory bowel disease. With her expertise in endoscopy techniques, interventionale endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasounds, she has coorganised a well-knowen international endoscopic workshop (Digestive Disease Cluj) from 2014 until present. She establised a series o medical protocols for early diagnostic using chromoendoscopy and NBI techniques for upper and lower early digestive neoplasia, developed a stadialisation methode of digestive tumors using miniprobs (IUDS), developed the POEM technique in Estern Europe, trained tens of fellows and young specialists in interventional endoscopy, spreaded good clinical practice of diagnosis and therapy of IBD in the Nord West of Romania. She is member o RCCC board (Romanian Crohn and Colitis club) and coordinator of Regional Center dedicated to IBD patients since 2017. She published numerous SCI journal papers and book chapters, edited/reviewed for many academic journals and worked as a guest professor in some foreign universities and institutes, coordinated/participated in several EU/national projects and received an academic award from Romania Academy (2015). Clinical research and applicability of endoscopic and EUS techniques of diagnosis and treatment has been a pursuit in her academic career.