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One of the top Nuclear Engineers in the world

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[:el] Lefteris Tsoukalas is considered to be one of the five best Nuclear Engineers in the world. While he grew up in Greece, his talent was fully acknowledged in America, where he graduated from the University. He believes deeply that Greece could defeat the economic...

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One of the World’s most influential scientific minds

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[:el] Paul Pavlou was named by Thomson Reuters as one of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, in its list of highly cited researchers in June 2014. This distinction was given to Pavlou for his citations of his work in a 10-year period, between 2002-2012. The...

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Greek researcher finds new pathway that controls metabolism

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A new approach to prevent and even cure obesity may be found, thanks to a study led by researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School and published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. By analyzing the cellular circuitry underlying the strongest genetic association...

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She developed contact lenses for glaucoma patients

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[:el] Myrto Korogiannaki is the chemical engineer who developed a contact lens-based drug delivery system for glaucoma patients. Korogiannaki has used hyaluronic acid to help get drugs to the eye from a lens in a controlled way. Patients with front-of-the-eye diseases, such as glaucoma, traditionally...

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Greek scientist awarded by the American Chemical Society

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[:el] The American Chemical Society announced the recipients for the 2016 Awards. The scientists awarted are distinguished in their fields in Chemistry and their research. Among the recipients, we find a Greek professor, Mercouri Kanatzidis. Mercouri Kanatzidis received the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by...

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Studies the potential to discover life beyond our planet

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[:el] Anezina Solomonidou is a PostDoctoral Research Fellow in NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) She was born on the 29th of September 1983 and comes from the beautiful Greek island of Milos, which has a rich geological interest and a very unique morphology. Spending a lot...

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Greek scientist finds the way to revert cancerous cells to healthy tissue

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[:el] A scientific team led by a Greek researcher believe they may have found a way to “turn off cancer” by reverting cancerous cells to healthy tissue. Researchers at the US Mayo Clinic demonstrated a method to turn cancerous breast and bladder cells benign, according to...

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Honored by President Obama for her work

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[:el] Demetra Evangelou is one of the Greek scientists to have won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). In fact, President Obama himself was the one to honor her with that award in 2011. The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists...

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Paul Alivisatos receives award for outstanding contributions in nanoscience

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[:el] Paul Alivisatos, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley’s Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, has received the second Tsinghua University Press – Springer Nano Research Award. The award ceremony took place at the 2015 Sino-US...

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The Greek astrophysicist with an asteroid named after him

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[:el] The meaning of success is quite relative. For a Hollywood actor, having a star with his name on the famous Avenue surely counts for something. But did you also know that astrophysicists have actual stars named after them? For example, the Greek astrophysicist Kleomenis...

One of the top Nuclear Engineers in the world

One of the World’s most influential scientific minds

Greek researcher finds new pathway that controls metabolism

She developed contact lenses for glaucoma patients

Greek scientist awarded by the American Chemical Society

Studies the potential to discover life beyond our planet

Greek scientist finds the way to revert cancerous cells to healthy tissue

Honored by President Obama for her work

Paul Alivisatos receives award for outstanding contributions in nanoscience

The Greek astrophysicist with an asteroid named after him

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