The Greeks who excelled globally in April
For yet another month Greeks from all over the world, managed to excel, to abolish the borders and make us proud with their achievements. The ellines.com team chose 10 of them, who during the month April caused international sensation with the work and personality.
Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Athena Lecturer Award. Read more…
2.Yannis Kevrekidis – Panagiotis Karkanas – Nicholas Peppas – George Triantis – Nicholas Christakis
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 228 new members; 40 of them are from 19 countries. Among them there are the 5 distinguished Greek researchers. The Academy’s membership of 4,900 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members includes many of the most accomplished scholars and scientists, writers, artists, politicians, businessmen and philanthropists worldwide. Read more…
Bioengineers at Rice University, the University of Maryland and Wake Forest University have received a $6.25 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to establish the Center for Engineering Complex Tissues (CECT). Antonios Mikos, director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering and director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering, serves as Rice’s principal investigator for the five-year grant. Read more…
4.Constantinos Petrovas – Elias Vagios
Scientists in USA, led by Constantinos Petrovas, have created a two-pronged antibody that aids the immune system in finding and eliminating HIV-infected cells that are hard to see. In the research participated another Greek scientist, Elias Vagios of the Department of Histopathology at the Venizelion Hospital of Heraklion, Crete. Read more…
5.Nicholas Peppas – John E. Bournas
The Medicine Maker magazine presented The Power List 2017 featuring the Top 100 most influential people in the world of drug development and manufacture. 2 Greek scientists are among the 100 most influential medicine makers for 2017. Nicholas Peppas is featured twice in our list of the month. Read more…
*Greek scientists, scholars, politicians, artists, journalists, businessmen, athletes, artists, painters, policemen, photographers, actors, managers constantly emerge through investigative journalism and the invaluable help of ellines.com community members. Each month, we will present 5 of the most important Greeks, considering the influence of their work and the readability of their page on ellines.com.
