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Vassilis I. Zannis is a Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Director of Section of Molecular Genetics in the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute of Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Zannis’ major scientific contributions include the elucidation of the apoE polymorphism in humans, the cloning expression and transcriptional regulation of the human apolipoprotein genes and the functions of apolipoproteins A-I and apoE.
He served in Harvard Medical School for two years as an Assistant Professor and in 1984 he went to Boston University where he established the Section of Molecular Genetics.
He has published 135 original articles, 43 reviews and has over 5,000 citations of his published work.
Zannis also served as a Visiting Professor since 1986 at the University of Crete Medical School, where he focused on the development of research programs, the establishment of an MD-PhD program and the establishment of an exchange program between medical students of Boston University and the University of Crete.
Vassilis Zannis started his higher education as a second Deck officer in the Merchant Marine College in Athens, Greece. Then he got his B.S in the University of Athens in 1968 and received his PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley in the United States. He received postdoctoral training in biological sciences at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School, MIT and Harvard Medical School.
He was awarded in 1964 in the Merchant Marine College as First in his class. Τhen in 1968 from the University of Athens as First in his class again and in 1983 he received the Established Investigator Award of the American Heart Association.
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