Program Members

The program consists of both core members (faculty of the University of Crete Medical School) and external collaborators (faculty from collaborating institutions in Greece and abroad).

Gene regulation
/ Metabolic diseases

Dimitris Kardassis

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Developmental Neurobiology

Domna Karagogeos

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Cancer

George Mavrothalassitis

UoC Medical School/Basic Sciences

Neurodegeneration / Aging

Nektarios Tavernarakis

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Neoropharmacology

Achilleas Gravanis

UoC Medical School/ Basic Sciences

Neoropharmacology

Ioannis Charalampopoulos

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Bioinformatics

Ioannis Iliopoulos

UoC Medical School/Basic Sciences

Cancer

Evaggelia Papakonstanti

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Lipoproteins
/ Alzheimer’s Disease

Vassilis I. Zannis

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Immunology

Christos Tsatsanis

UoC Medical School / Lab. Medicine

Infections and Immunity

 George Chamilos

UoC Medical School / Lab. Medicine

Clinical Chemistry

Maria Venychaki

UoC Medical School / Lab. Medicine

Histopathology

Elias Drakos

UoC Medical School / Morphology

Hematology

Helen A. Papadaki

UoC Medical School / Internal Medicine

Rheumatology

Prodromos Sidiropoulos

UoC Medical School / Internal Medicine

Human Genetics

George Goulielmos

UoC Medical School / Internal Medicine

Rheumatology

George Bertsias

UoC Medical School / Internal Medicine

Hematology

Charalampos Pontikoglou

UoC Medical School/Internal Medicine

Thoracic Medicine

Katerina Antoniou

UoC Medical School/Internal Medicine

Neurology

 Ioannis Zaganas

UoC Medical School/ Neurology And Sensory Organs

Neurology

Clio Spanaki

UoC Medical School / Neurology And Sensory Organs

Intensive Care

Dimitris Georgopoulos

UoC Medical School / Surgery

Intensive Care

Katerina Vaporidi

UoC Medical School / Surgery

Molecular Biology

Joseph Papamatheakis

UoC Department of Biology

Aging

George Garinis

UoC Department of Biology

Gene regulation / Epigenetics

Charalampos Spilianakis

UoC Department of Biology

Gene regulation / Epigenetics

Iannis Talianidis

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH

Gene regulation / Stem cells

Androniki Kretsovali

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH

Rheumatology

Dimitrios T.  Boumpas

University of Athens Medical School and Biomedical  Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Cancer

Aristidis Eliopoulos

University of Athens Medical School

Pharmacogenomics

Despina Sanoudou

University of Athens Medical School and Biomedical  Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Immunology

Panagiotis Verginis

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences & Biomedical  Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Chanelopathies

Diomides Logothetis

Northeastern University

Cardiovascular Diseases

Konstantinos Drosatos

Temple University

Diabetes

Michael Czech

University of Massachusetts in Worcester

Atherosclerosis

Edward Fisher

New York University

Cancer

Thalis Papagianakopoulos

New York University

Clinical Chemistry

Eirini Dermitzaki

UoC Medical School/Lab Medicine

Hematology

George Vasilopoulos

University of Thessaly Medical School

Material Science

Maria Chatzinikolaidou

UoC Department of Materials Science and Technology

Neurology

Vasilis Mastorodimos

University Hospital of Heraklion-Crete

Biology

Ilektra Gizeli

UoC Department of Biology

Cellular – Molecular Biology

Marina Vidaki

UoC Medical School / Basic Sciences

Experimental Oncology

Stavroula Baritaki

UoC Medical School

Genetics

George Apidianakis

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus

Hematopathology

George Rasidakis

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Cardiology

Maria Marketou

UoC Medical School

Metabolic – Cardiovascular Diseases

Theodosios Filippatos

UoC Medical School

Molecular Medicine

Silvia Corvera

UMass Chan Medical School. Boston, USA

Neurology

Stelios Smirnakis

Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA

Psychiatry

Anastasios Georgakopoulos

Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York NY, USA

Neurology

Filippos Vingopoulos

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Public Health

Filippos Filippidis

School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

Genetics

Aggeliki Tsagaratou

Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Public Health

Ioannis Sotiropoulos

School of Health and Life Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal

Hematology

Christina Kalpadaki

UoC Medical School/Internal Medicine

Immunology

Dimitris Mastellos

National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”

Immunology

Themis Alissafi

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School and Biomedical  Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Regenerative
Medicine – Stem Cells

Maria Roubelaki

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School

Neuroscience/

Bioinformatics

Panayiota Poirazi

IMBB-FoRTH, Foundation for Research and Technology FoRTH, Heraklion-Crete

Biology

Maria Zervou

UoC Medical School/Lab Medicine

Immunology

Katerina Chatzioannou

Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Immunology

Eirini Sevdali                      

UoC Medical School/Lab Medicine

Biostatistics

Antonis Bertsias

UoC Medical School/Lab Medicine

Endocrinology

Paraskevi Xekouki

UoC Medical School/Lab Medicine

Nephrology
/ Autoimmune Diseases

Myrto Kostopoulou

National & Kapodistrian     University of Athens, Medical School

Public Health    

Theano Roumeliotaki

UoC Medical School/Social Medicine

Computational Biomedicine 

George Manikis

ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology (FoRTH)

Neurology

Georgios Koutsis

 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School

Informatics

Lena Latsoudi

Foundation for Research and
Technology Hellas

Neurology / Neurogenetics

Lambros Mathioudakis

UoC Medical School / Lab Medicine

Neurology / Pediatrics

Pelagia Vorgia

Venizelio General Hospital of Heraklion-Crete

Neurology / Pediatrics

Olga Grafakou

Venizelio General Hospital of Heraklion-Crete

 

EVOLUTION – NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

Biomedical research field is evolving and the Steering Committee continuously evaluates the needs of the Program in order to pursue its aims. Therefore, novel faculty members and research labs have been incorporated during the last years. A limiting factor in this process is the constriction during the last several years of the Faculty in the Medical School and the School of Biology at UoC. Nevertheless, we have recruited 5 new members both from the UoC environment (Professors I. Gizeli, S. Baritaki and M. Vidaki), as well as from Institutions abroad (Professors G. Apidianakis from the University of Cyprus and G. Rasidakis from Karolinska Institute). Following the comments and recommendations of the last external review committee (2018), most of the new members (4/5) are coming from the oncology field while Professor Gizeli is focusing on molecular diagnostics.