George Dedoussis

George Dedoussis is a Professor of Human Biology at the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition

George Dedoussis is a Professor of Human Biology at the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition of Harokopio University in Athens. He received his BSc in Biology from the University of Patras, his master’s degree from the University of Technology «Compiegne» in France, and his PhD from the Medical School of Athens. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Thalassemia and as a researcher on a Fulbright scholarship at the Medical Faculty of the ‘Harvard University’ (Boston, USA). He has been a visiting professor for many years at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nancy, France. As a Principal Investigator he has coordinated a large number of research projects mainly in the field of Human Molecular Genetics of cardiometabolic phenotypes and their interaction with dietary intake. He has supervised 9 PhD students that have defended, while in 5 others their dissertations are in progress. He has published more than 300 papers in journals with high impact factor and his research work has been recognized by others (number of citations > 45000). He is teaching Biology of the Cell and Molecular Genetics. He was recently elected as a member and Vice-President of the National Research Council. He was nominated in 2019 among the most cited scientists during the last decade. He has coordinated many national and European grants in the field of genomics of obesity, myocardial infraction and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). He is also testing the potential beneficial impact of natural compounds on the clinical outcome of patients diagnosed with NAFLD and he is the coordinator of a Marie Curie RISE European grant (www.MAST4HEALTH.eu). His research group is consisted of Nutritionists, Biologists and Bioinformaticiens