Researcher

[: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...

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....

Proved that happiness is contagious

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[:el] Nicholas Christakis is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol...

He researches the usefulness of bacteria

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[:el] Nikos Kyrpides is a biologist, a Researcher and Director of the Genomics Biology program at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley Lab. He has won many international awards and he was also included in the Thomson Reuters list with the most important...

Greek physicist who has been honored with the Sakurai Prize

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[:el] Savas Dimopoulos is a distinguished professor of Particle Physics at Stanford University, in fact he started teaching there at the age of 28. He is one of the 2 Greek physicists having been awarded with the Sakurai Prize as a recognition and encouragement to his...

Perpetual researcher of mathematics

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[:el]Eleftherios Argyropoulos was born in Kalamata on 1st of April in 1967. From his early high school years he showed his great interest in mathematics and physics. Immediately after graduating from high school he began research in mathematics. In 1986 when he was just 19...

The long and tireless journey towards the better understanding of human genes

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[ Manolis Kellis studied Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT, where he now teaches as adjunct Professor. He works at the famous Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and teaches “Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution (6.895/6.085)”. His research looks into better comprehending human genes...

The Greek who makes cancer tissues glow

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The path towards the more effective removal of tumors has been paved by Vasilis Ntziachristos, head of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Center in Germany. Prof. Ntziachristos´s area of research encompasses the development of...

“Greece must invest in the future”

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In 1983 the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) [2] offered him a permanent position in the Nuclear Physics division. Since then he has been an employee of the CEA, working in the domain of fundamental research in Nuclear Physics. From May 1985 to June 1986...

The human brain is hard to imitate

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