International Scientific Advisory Committee

An international Scientific Advisory Committee was established in 1990 and comprises of 10 members appointed by the Board of Directors. The major objective of this Committee is to advice the Board of Directors and the Scientific Council on scientific and medical matters.

The current members of the International Scientific Advisory Committee are the following:

Professor John Christodoulou

Director, Western Sydney Genetics Program
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia

Professor V.M. Der Kaloustian Clinical Director, Division of Medical Genetics
McGill University Health Center, Montreal Canada
Professor Douglas Higgs Director of the Molecular Haematology Unit
Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, U.K.
Professor Peter Karayiannis Reader in Molecular Virology, Division of Medicine
Imperial College, London U.K
Professor James R. Lupski Cullen Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics
and Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Huston, Texas, U.S.A.
Professor Dimitris P Mikhailidis Academic Head of Dept, Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free University College School of Medicine, University College London, UK
Professor Konstantin Miller Director of Cytogenetics, General Secretary of the
European Cytogenetics Association, Institute of Human Genetics,
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Professor Jahn M. Nesland Director of Division of Pathology, Vice President of International Academy of Pathology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital Oslo,University of Oslo, Norway
Professor Timothy Pedley Chairman of Department of Neurology, Colombia University and Chief of the Neurological Institute of New York, New York, U.S.A.
Professor Demetris Vasilopoulos Professor of Neurology, Neurology Clinic
University of Athens, Greece