Aristides Eliopoulos

Aristides Eliopoulos is Professor of Biology & Genetics and Head of the Department of Biology at the School of Medicine of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), since 2017. Previously, he acted as a Professor (2012-17) and an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology (2005-12) at the University of Crete Medical School. He is also an affiliated Senior Scientist at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA).

Prof Eliopoulos performed his PhD studies at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens) in partnership with the University of Crete Medical School. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher and research group leader at the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia (USA), while granted the prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Career Development Award (2000) and Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Fellowship (1999). His research focuses on: a) signaling pathways regulating inflammatory and oncogenic processes and their interplay with genetic events that underpin malignant, inflammatory and metabolic diseases and b) the effects of nutritional factors on chemotherapy responses and changes in gut microbiota. His work has been published >136 papers which received >19500 citations and he reached an h-index=58. He has served also as the coordinator of EU-funded research programmes involving research teams in Europe and Israel.