Aristides Eliopoulos is Professor of Biology & Genetics and Head of the Department of Biology at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), School of Medicine. He performed his PhD at the National Hellenic Research Foundation of Athens in partnership with the University of Crete Medical School and his postdoctoral training in the UK and the US. From 2000 to 2005, Dr Eliopoulos led a research group at the University of Birmingham Institute for Cancer Studies (Birmingham, UK) supported by a prestigious MRC Career Development Award, followed by faculty appointments at the University of Crete Medical School, including Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2012. In 2017 he was elected Professor at NKUA, School of Medicine.   

Ari Eliopoulos serves as member of the Governing Board of the Centre of Precision Medicine of the NKUA School of Medicine, member of the Governing Board of the Center of Excellence in Agri-Food and Food Authenticity of NKUA, member of the Governing Board of the Hellenic Society of Molecular Research in Cancer and member of the working group on Precision Medicine of the Hellenic Society of Digital Medicine.   

Ari Eliopoulos teaches Biology and Genetics to undergraduate medical students and has contributed to the translation of a number of biology textbooks or chapters in Greek. He also teaches various aspects of Cancer Biology and Nutrigenetics in doctoral programmes and is the coordinator of the e-learning course “Application of Genetics in Precision Nutrition” of NKUA. He is co-founder of the NKUA spin-off company “GENOSOPHY”. 

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6403-6761 / ResearcherID: R-9449-2018 

Web: https://biology.med.uoa.gr/  

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