Team:Thessaloniki/Team

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Meet the Team


Members


Charalampos Anagnostakis



Dry lab & Wet lab | Research and Bioinformatics

Wet lab, Software, Data Science, Graphics, Human practices

Undergraduate Pharmacy Student


" Usually when they say to me to speak, I have nothing to say. So I do not have a motto "

Anna Anastasiou



Wet Lab | R & D and Communication

Wet Lab, Human Practices, Content

BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics


" Always go for the target no one else can see "

Anna Varvari



Dry lab | Research and Technology Development

Software, Hardware, Modeling, Graphics, Video Editing, Human Practices, Wiki

Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Student


" Error 404 'motto' not found "

Danai Eleni Vergini



Wet Lab | Research and Development

Wet Lab, Content, Safety

Undergraduate Pharmacy Student


" Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake " ~ John Cleese

Anastasia Theodosiadou



Wet lab | R & D and Communication

Wet Lab, Human Practices, Public Relations, Social media

Undergraduate Biology Student


" Whenever you feel sad just remember that there are billions of cells in your body and all they care about is you "

Maria Kosmidou



Wet Lab | Fundraising and Business Development

Wet Lab, Human Practices, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship

Undergraduate Pharmacy Student


" Be the change that you wish to see in the world " ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Dimitris Trygoniaris



Dry lab | Research and Development

Software, Modeling, Human Practices

Undergraduate Physics Student


" There can be no real freedom, without the freedom to fail " ~ Erich Fromm

Alexandros Tsigilis



Dry lab | Research and Development

Hardware

Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Student

Konstantina Tsouderou



Wet Lab | R & D and Business Development

Wet Lab, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship

Undergraduate Pharmacy Student


" Exist loudly "

Emmanouil Chatzichristofis



Wet Lab | Research and Development

Wet Lab, Content

Undergraduate Chemistry Student


" Keep moving forward "

Advisors


Panagiotis Valatsos



Dry lab | Research and Information Technology

Software, Website, Modeling

Undergraduate Informatics Student


" Through discipline comes freedom "

Mentors


Asteris Arampatzis


Asteris Arampatzis is currently a MSc student in Biotechnology in ETH Zurich and holds a Medical Degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He participated in iGEM in 2017, as the team leader and founder of the first Greek team to participate in the competition, iGEM Greece. He remains enthusiastic about synthetic biology and interested in multidisciplinary research endeavors, such as aging reversal and space exploration. He is an Open science and open access advocate.
We would like to thank Asteris for his valuable help and support in experimental procedures and especially for his advice about cloning. He shared with us his experience about iGEM Competition and this motivated us to continue our journey in iGEM!

Panagiotis-Nikolaos Lalagkas


Panagiotis-Nikolaos Lalagkas has graduated from the 5-year School of Pharmacy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in February 2020 and he obtained his MSc in Primary Health Care from the Department of Medicine of Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in July 2021. His goal is to combine health and molecular data of cancer patients to discover medical treatments and increase the health impact of existing ones. He has research experience in analyzing health data (e-prescription data, product sales data) and genomic data (RNA-seq data, microarray data) which was acquired by his participation in numerous national and international projects. His hobbies include basketball, music, traveling and reading books (self-development, psychology).
We would like to thank Panagiotis for screening databases about urine biomarkers that could potentially diagnose pancreatic cancer in early stages. This procedure helped us choose the most efficient biomarkers in order to develop a non-invasive diagnostic tool.

Aris Sionakidis


Aris Sionakidis is a 2nd-year PhD student (MRC DTP in Precision Medicine) based at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer of the University of Edinburgh. His PhD thesis title is “Molecular Dynamics of the Response to Breast Cancer Therapies”. The aim of his project is to leverage both traditional and novel statistical and machine learning methods to analyse large-scale patient data (genomic, transcriptomic, epidemiologic etc.) in an effort to lead to more personalised treatment strategies, better predictive tools and improved treatment outcomes for patients. Aris has graduated from the School of Pharmacy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in July 2018 with an average grade of 8.57, went on to complete his military service (09/2018 – 06/2019) and then proceeded in obtaining a Master’s degree in Precision Medicine and Pharmacological Innovation from the University of Glasgow (09/2019 – 12/2020) with Distinction. He is passionate about genomics, mathematics, music, sports and traveling.
Our team is very grateful for his valuable help in the bioinformatic analysis, which proved the correctness and importance of the biomarkers we selected for the diagnosis of PDAC .

Principal Investigator


Ioannis S. Vizirianakis


PI | Ph.D., Associate Professor in Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics

Ioannis S. Vizirianakis currently serves as an Associate Professor in Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), School of Pharmacy, Greece. Moreover, he is visiting Faculty at the University of Nicosia, Department of Life and Health Sciences, Cyprus. He received, for his work in research and education, numerous international (Cancer Coordinating Committee of the University of California at San Francisco, USA (1998, in research), the Simycyp Academic Award (2019, in education) and from the University of Nicosia (2021, in research), and national awards (from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (20 awards in research and education and contribution to society throughout his career). He has been theme/associate editor and editorial board member in 8 peer-review journals and as reviewer in 32. In 2014 he edited the “Handbook of Personalized Medicine: Advances in Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery and Therapy; Pan Stanford: Singapore. He has been member for several years in the national drug regulatory body (EOF) and also in 15 organizing/scientific conference committees. He has been supervisor in 7 PhDs, 32 MScs and 42 diploma theses. As supervising and/or examination committee member, he acted in 26 PhD and 32 MSc theses. He also served as external evaluator for PhDs in Universities abroad (Warsaw, Poland; Sidney, Australia). Moreover, he has been PI/collaborator in 36 national/international grant awards and funding proposals, as well reviewer-evaluator in funding bodies for several years (EU, Greece, Cyprus, NASA). He has also authored 103 research articles published in international peer-review journals (Scopus), as well as 52 research articles in Greek scientific journals. He has also been invited speaker in 65 scientific national and international conferences, whereas additionally he contributed to more than 110 scientific meetings.

For a more detailed CV: https://www.pharm.auth.gr/en/faculty/764





Photographs taken by: Aris Mpizirtzakis and Yannis Tsouflidis.