Alina Scridon is Professor of Physiology at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology “George Emil Palade” of Târgu Mureș, Coordinator of the Functional Explorations Laboratory of the Center for Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Research and of the Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology Laboratory Târgu Mureș, and President of the Experimental Cardiology Working Group of the Romanian Society of Cardiology.