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 |
| Human Μοlecular Genetics | 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.