Senior Scientist, Head of the Department of Biochemical Genetics
Associate Professor
Course Coordinator of MG104: Biochemical Basis of Genetic Diseases
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics
- Lysosomal glycogen transport and metabolism
Completed undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Göttingen / Germany and received his PhD in 2001 from the same university for a thesis performed at the Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in the field of developmental and cell biology. From 2002-2006 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Biology of the University of Crete where he investigated the role of a new family of extracellular matrix proteins in epithelial basement membranes in the mouse embryo. In September 2008 he joined the Department of Biochemical Genetics of the CING where he is currently involved in diagnostic and research activities related to inherited metabolic disorders.
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