Biologist

Is honoured for his scientific work by Google

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Google honors Georgios Papanikolaou, the leading Greek physician, biologist, scientist and researcher, cytopathic pioneer, who has saved and continues to save millions of women in the world through the Pap Test, the early detection of cervical cancer. Google Doodle, on May 13, 2019, aims to...

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National Geographic tv presenter

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[:el] Hazen Audel is a National Geographic tv presenter and a biologist. He travels to some of the most inhospitable places on earth in order to master survival techniques that maintained some tribes against the odds, for thousands of years. He is a former Ferris High School biology...

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Found a way to reprogram tumour cells into benign cells

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[:el]Antonis Kourtidis, is a Greek biologist and researcher, who -under the guidance of professor Panos Anastasiadis of the Department for Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic- tries to find new and effective ways to beat cancer. In this effort, they have demonstrated a method to reprogram...

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The hunter of genetic fossils

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[:el] Aris Katzourakis is a Biologist at Oxford University. As an evolutionary biologist and paleovirologist, the researcher of the Zoology Department of Oxford University, has been working during the last six years as a hunter of genetic fossils, as scientists studying areas of defunct human...

Famous Greeks

Greek blood runs through my veins

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[:el] Greek American biologist Tom Maniatis is widely recognized by the international academic community for his excellent research on recombinant DNA and human genes cloning and he is also one of seven scientists awarded with the internationally prestigious Lasker-Koshland Achievement Award in Medical Science. Tom...

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One of the founders of the European Research Council

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[:el] Fotis Kafatos was a Professor of Biology, born on the 16th of April, 1940. He was an eminent scientist who played a key role in establishing the European Research Council (ERC). In fact in 2011 he received a prestigious prize for his dedication to...

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The “cartographer” of the genome of one thousand people

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When in 2000 Aris Patrinos and Craig Veder stood next to the U.S. president, Bill Clinton announcing the decoding of human genome, the achievement was only related to the «alphabet» of the code that creates life. In decoding the “grammar” code, we had to wait...

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The biologist who is investigating the Pontian Genocide

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Born in 1931 in Constance, Almopia, in the prefecture of Pella, he meet through his parents” descriptions, Greeks of Pontos, the ferocity of persecution from their ancestral homes. These images, marked him, thus, to decide to denounce actively the genocide of the Pontians, in the...

Is honoured for his scientific work by Google

National Geographic tv presenter

Found a way to reprogram tumour cells into benign cells

The hunter of genetic fossils

Greek blood runs through my veins

One of the founders of the European Research Council

The “cartographer” of the genome of one thousand people

The biologist who is investigating the Pontian Genocide

The man who mapped the human brain

Dr. Ioanna (Joan) Vernikos – The first Greek female scientist at NASA

Katerina Gogou – The carefree girl of Greek cinema who was anything...

Rania Bellou – The artist of memory

Alec Issigonis – The Greek behind the legendary Mini Cooper

Metsovo – An Autumn Fairytale in the Pindus

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