Research

[:el] Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, led by Nickolas Papadopoulos, have developed a new screening test for endometrial and ovarian cancers based on cervical fluid samples gathered during routine Papanicolaou (Pap) tests. PapSEEK detects mutations in DNA that have been identified for specific cancers...

Famous Greeks

Leading authority on the evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests

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[:el]Constantine A. Gatsonis is the Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics. He is the founding Director of the Center for Statistical Scientists at Brown University and the founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics. He was educated at Princeton and Cornell and joined the...

Greek researcher sheds light to elephant genome

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[:el] New research led by a Greek researcher has confirmed that the two types of African elephants are separate species that have lived in nearly complete isolation from one another. The most comprehensive elephant genome study ever conducted, covering seven living and extinct species, is...

New research halts breast cancer spread

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[:el] Researchers, among them two Greek scientists, have discovered that an amino acid called asparagine is essential for breast cancer spread, and by restricting it, cancer cells stopped invading other parts of the body in mice. The two Greek scientists participating are Evangelia Papachristou and George Poulogiannis....

Develops novel diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies to combat cancer metastasis

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[:el] Konstantinos Konstantopoulos is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Konstantopoulos joined the faculty of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and promoted to the rank of Professor in 2008. He served as Department Chair...

Develops methods to study processes of relevance to catalysis

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[:el] Angelos Michaelides is Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) and co-director of the Thomas Young Centre (TYC). Research in his team aims at understanding important phenomena in surface- materials- and nano-science. Using concepts from quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, his team...

Low-fat or low-carb? Greek researcher has the answer

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New evidence from a study at the Stanford University School of Medicine might dismay those who have chosen sides in the low-fat versus low-carb diet debate. Neither option is superior: Cutting either carbs or fats shaves off excess weight in about the same proportion, according...

Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the University of Maryland

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[:el] Peter Kofinas is a Keystone Professor of Bioengineering and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the University of Maryland. He as an associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Programs at University of Maryland. His research is focused in the...

Aims to define the genetic and environmental influences that predispose individuals to obesity

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[:el] Elizabeth Speliotes is gastroenterology specialist and an associate professor of internal medicine, computational medicine and bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Health System. She hopes to uncover nonalcoholic fatty liver disease’s actual pervasiveness and risk, in addition to identifying effective treatments through genetic research....

Holograms will help surgeons ‘see through’ tissue

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