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[:el]“The area of the conductors is a cycle where some countries comprise, while others remain outside. It’s like the Grand Prix. An F1 driver has nothing to do in Greece”, Nicholas Michalakis said a couple of days after he was chosen to lead one of...

A Cretan scientist in the fight against Parkinson and Alzheimer’s disease

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Professor Nicholas D. Mazarakis holds the Lucas-Lee chair of Molecular BioMedicine and is head of Gene Therapy in Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He is a molecular neuroscientist with an international reputation in gene therapy of neurological diseases. Nicholas Mazarakis is from Crete....

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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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...

Leads to the return of the Parthenon Marbles

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This is the woman with perhaps the largest experience in the matter of reclaiming the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum – and undoubtedly the soul of the ongoing campaign in London. Eleni Cubitt, is for 23 years old secretary of the British Committee for...

The lawyer of great athletes in Greece and Europe

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In his CV, the command of dozens of cases of major athletes in the courtroom is recorded. As a lawyer, he always puts the bar higher while as an academic he defends the value of specialization in a particular area of sports law. Gregory Ioannidis,...

“Diamond” talent made in Greece

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[:el] Marina Diamantis is a singer and songwriter. She is better known by her stage name Marina and the Diamonds. She was born on October 10, 1985 in Abergavenny Wales. Her father, Dimos Diamandis, is Greek, and her mother Esther is from Wales. They met when they...

The greatest Greek mathematician right after Karatheodoris

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He was born in 1952 and grew up in Argostoli. The most famous teacher at his 18 he left for Great Britain since for various reasons he did not get into the National Technical University of Athens. Nevertheless he has now become an honorary Doctor...

The Greek surgeon who “kills” tumours

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

The so-called “lung laser machine”, used by the Greek scientist, costs approximately 120,000 pounds and shortens both the treatment’s duration and the length of hospital stay, while allowing for speedier patient recovery. An innovative method, used by the senior consultant thoracic surgeon at the Royal...

“The star that sweeps the UK charts”

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