Dr. Apostolos Zaravinos
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European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Dr. Zaravinos is an Assistant Professor of Cancer Genetics in the Department of Life Sciences at the European University Cyprus. He received his BSc in Biology from the Department of Biology at the University of Crete in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in the field of Cancer Genetics and Viral Oncology, at the Department of Clinical Virology of the Medical School of the University of Crete in 2008. He then worked as Research Scientist at the Harris Birthright Research Center for Fetal Medicine at King’s College Hospital (2009-2010) and later performed postdoctoral research in Cancer Genetics at the Molecular Medicine Research Center of the University of Cyprus (2011-2013). He completed his postdoctoral training in Immunogenetics and Cancer Genetics at the Department of Laboratory Medicine of the Karolinska Institutet (2013-2015). Since 2015, he holds a Specialization in Systems Biology from the Systems Biology Center of the Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai. Dr. Zaravinos' research focuses on the advance understanding of carcinogenesis through the investigation of interactions between genes and analysis of Big Data in Genomics. His current major interests include the discovery of therapeutic targets in cancer using next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches. Dr. Zaravinos has worked as Guest Editor for several Special Issues and as Associate Faculty Member of the F1000Prime. He was the recipient of the Science Award (2017) from the Youth Board of Cyprus, and the first Young Investigator Award from the Bank Of Cyprus Oncology Centre (2017). Dr. Zaravinos is a member of the European Association of Cancer Research, Federation of European Biochemical Societies, Swedish Society for Biochemistry and European CanCer Organisation, and he has authored in more than 55 original research articles, 10 review articles, and 4 book chapters (h-index, 24; >1650 citations, Scopus).