Hellenic Proteomics Society

   

 

Dr. George Tsangaris

 

President

 
 

 

 
 

Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens

Center for Basic Research, Biotechnology  Division

 

 
 

gthtsangaris@bioacademy.gr

 

 
 

Dr George Tsangaris studied Chemistry at the University of Ioannina, from where he graduated in 1983. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Ioannina, in Biochemistry in 1991. He was post-doctoral fellow of French Government (1991-1993), at INSERM U200 (Paris, France) on Molecular Biology, Molecular Immunology and Immuno toxicology and researcher at the same institute until 1994.

From that year he joined the University Research Institute of Genetic and Malignant Diseases (University of Athens, Greece), as principal investigator, responsible for the project “Molecular study of childhood cancer”. In 2002 he joined Roche Center for Medical Genomics (Basel, Swiss) for a six months sabbatical in Proteomics.                       

His major research interests are molecular oncology related to the diagnosis and  treatment of malignant diseases as well as the study of apoptosis by micro arrays and proteomics analysis.