Research

[:el] Rice University researcher Antonios Mikos was selected for the Shu Chien Achievement Award by the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) special interest group. Antonios Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the director of...

6 Greeks new members in the National Academy of Engineering

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[:el] The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 84 new members and 22 foreign members, among them 6 Greek researchers (3 in each category). This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,281 and the number of foreign members to 249. Election to the National...

Greek researcher identifies new mechanism for Parkinson’s treatment

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[:el] Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway, led by a Greek researcher, have found that the secret to Parkinson’s disease may be in cells’ mitochondria. There is no known cause or effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The findings could lead to future treatment...

12 Greeks in the team that discovered new genes for height

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[:el] In the largest, deepest search to date, the international Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium has uncovered 83 new DNA changes that affect human height. These changes are uncommon or rare, but they have potent effects, with some of them adjusting height by...

Studies mosquitos which transmit human pathogens

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[:el] George Dimopoulos is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. He leads his “The Dimopoulos Group” since 2003. He has worked on mosquito vector biology since 1991, and pioneered with several discoveries in mosquito-pathogen...

Greek researcher engineers new thyroid cells

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[:el] Researchers, led by a Greek scientist. have discovered a new efficient way to generate thyroid cells, known as thyrocytes, using genetically modified embryonic stem cells. The findings, which appear in the journal Stem Cell Reports, are the first step to developing a similar protocol...

Researches potential novel therapeutic interventions for HIV

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[:el] Constantinos Petrovas is a Staff Scientist at the Immunology Laboratory of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his work has revealed an alternative strategy of finding cells with the HIV Virus that can lead to novel therapeutic interventions promoting an effective,...

Trump close to choosing Greek as head of the National Institutes of Health

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[:el] Could US president-elect Donald Trump be close to choosing a leader for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? The Greek researcher, John Ioannidis is thought to be among the candidates according to Nature. According to American media the current NIH chief Francis Collins and...

Tries to decode the secrets of space

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[:el] Giorgos Leloudas is an astronomer, a postdoc at the Experimental Astrophysics group at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a guest researcher at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Giorgos Leloudas is from Athens. He graduated in 2001 from...

Co-Director of the Computational Science and Engineering in MIT

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