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CURRICULUM VITAE
Demetrios A. Spandidos

Date and Place of Birth:
1947. Agios Constantinos, Sparta, Greece

Education:

B.Sc. in Chemistry, November 1971, Aristotelion University of Thesaloniki, Greece
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, January, 1976, McGill University, Montreal, Canada ,Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Genetics and Transcription of Reovirus

D.Sc. in Genetics, July 1989. University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Title of D.Sc. Thesis: Studies on the role of ras gene in carcinogenesis
F.R.S.H. June 1994. The Royal Society of Health, London, UK

F.R.C.Path January 1997. The Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK
Specialty in Clinical Chemistry, 1998. Ministry of Health, Greece
FASA, 2005. The American Society of Angiology

Marital Status:
Married to Dr. Panayota D. Krempeniou (Ph.D. in Law, University of Glasgow, UK) in 1976. Two children, born in 1977 (daughter, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK) and 1981 (son, MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Citizenship:
Greek

Professional Experience :

1989 - Present:	Professor of Virology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
1990 - Present:	Director, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, University Hospital, Heraklion, Greece
2006 - Present:	Director, Laboratories of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine, University Hospital, Heraklion, Greece
1988 - 1998:	Director, Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
1981 - 1988:	Member of the Senior Scientific Staff, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1985 - 1987:	Head, Virology Programme, Hellenic Institute Pasteur, Athens, Greece
1985 - 1987: (Feb-March each year)	Visiting Scientist and Guest lecturer "Genes and Cancer" course for medical, graduate and undergraduate students, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, University of California, San Diego, USA
1979 - 1981:	Centennial Fellow (MRC Canada), Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1979:	Director, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical Center of Athens Hospital, Athens, Greece
1978 - 1979:	Epimelitis (Assistant Professor), Laboratory of Biochemical and Biological Research, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Athens, Greece
1976 - 1978:	Post-doctoral Fellow (MRC Canada), Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
July 1976:	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA. Advanced Bacterial Genetics Course, including the recombinant DNA technology
1972 - 1976:	Teaching Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1970 - 1971:	Research Assistant, Laboratory of Virology and Tissue Culture, Theagenion Cancer Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

Additional Responsibilities:
Editor:
A. Journals

International Journal of Oncology (since 1992) (included in Science Citation Index and Index Medicus)
Oncology Reports (since 1994) (included in Science Citation Index and Index Medicus)
International Journal of Molecular Medicine (since 1998) (included in Science Citation Index and Index Medicus)
Molecular Medicine Reports (since 2008)
Anticancer Research (Annual Special Issues from 1985 to 1990)

B. Books in English

Current Perspectives on Molecular and Cellular Oncology, JAI Press Ltd, London, UK. Volume 1. Part A pp1-318, Part B pp1-332, 1992
Ras oncogenes, by D.A. Spandidos. Plenum Press. New York and London, pp1-323, 1989
The super-family of ras related genes, by D.A. Spandidos, Plenum Press, New York and London, pp1-337, 1992

C. Books in Greek
(Approved by the Ministry of Education for the Greek Universities)

Virology by D.A. Spandidos, Litsas Press, Athens pp1-260, 1991
Safety Manual for Universities and Research Centers by D.A. Spandidos, Litsas Press, Athens pp1-160, 1991
Molecular and Cellular Oncology by D.A. Spandidos, Litsas Press, Athens, pp1-448, 1992
Clinical Virology by D.A. Spandidos, Lychnia Press, Athens, pp1-364, 1998
Molecular Oncology by D.A. Spandidos, Lychnia Press, Athens, pp1-521, 2000

Member of the Editorial Boards:

Anticancer Research (1985-1993)
In vivo (1988-1993)
European Journal of Cancer-Oral Oncology (since 1992-2007)
Molecular and Cellular Differentiation (1993-1995)
Cancer Molecular Biology (1994-2000)
Pathology Oncology Research (since 1995)
The International Journal of Biological Markers (since 1995)
Minerva Biotechnologica (since 1996)
Journal of Balkan Union of Oncology (since 1996)
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (2001-2006)
Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer (since 2003)
Current Cancer Therapy Reviews (since 2004)
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (since 2005)
The Open Neuroscience Journal (since 2007)
Romanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology (since 2007)
The Open Cancer Journal (since 2007)
The Open Neurology Journal (since 2007)
The Open Dermatology Journal (since 2007)
Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences (since 2007)
Journal of Ovarian Research (since 2007)
Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics (since 2009)

Meetings Organizer:


1.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the 35th Meeting of the European Tissue Culture Society (ETCS), Athens, Greece, 1987
2.	Chairman, Organizing Committee and the 25th Meeting of the Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture Study Group (CTOC) Athens, Greece, 1987
3.	Director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Ras oncogenes", Athens, Greece, 1988
4.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the European Association for Cancer Research Sponsored Spring Symposium on "Oncogenes and Onco-supressor Genes", Athens, Greece, 1989
5.	Director, FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on "The Role of Oncogenes and Biological Response Modifiers in Tumor Invasion and Metastasis". Athens, Greece, 1989
6.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the International Conference on "Cell Differentiation/Oncogenesis". Athens, Greece, 1990
7.	Director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "The Super-family of ras Related Genes", Agia Pelagia, Crete, Greece, 1991
8.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the International Seminar Course entitled "Breast Cancer: Therapeutic Strategy and Molecular Biology". Agia Pelagia, Crete, Greece, 1991
9.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the International Seminar Course entitled "Colorectal Cancer: Therapeutic Strategy and Molecular Biology". Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, 1992
10.	Chairman, Organizing Committe of the "1st World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Athens, Greece, 1995
11.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "Oncology 1996" Conference, Island of Kos, Greece, 1996
12.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "2nd World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Athens, Greece, 1997
13.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "3rd World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 1998
14.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "1st International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 1998
15.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "Seminar on Cancer Research", of the Balkan School of Oncology, Athens, Greece, 1998
16.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "4th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, 1999
17.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "2nd International Symposium on Molecular Medicine",Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, 1999
18.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "5th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2000
19.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "3rd International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2000
20.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "6th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2001
21.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "4th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2001
22.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "7th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2002
23.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "5th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2002
24.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "8th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2003
25.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "6th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2003
26.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "9th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2004
27.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "7th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2004
28.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "10th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2005
29.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "8th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2005
30.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "11th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2006
31.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "9th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine",Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2006
32.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "12th World Congress on Advances in Oncology", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2007
33.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the "10th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine", Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2007
34.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the ‘13th World Congress on Advances in Oncology’, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2008
35.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the ‘11th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine’, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2008
36.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the ‘14th World Congress on Advances in Oncology’, Loutraki, Greece, 2009
37.	Chairman, Organizing Committee of the ‘12th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine’, Loutraki, Greece, 2009

Advisory and Administrative Responsibilities:

Member of the Advisory Board, Institute of Developmental Neuroscience and Aging (1986-1990)
Member of the Board of Governors and Nomination Committee of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research (1991-1998)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Roy Castle International Center for Lung Cancer Research, Liverpool, UK (since 1996-2004)
Member of the Board of Governors of Euroscience (1997-2000)
Director of the section of Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Member of the Board of Directors, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Member of the Committee of Graduate Studies, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Honors/Awards:

Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society of Mastology, Athens, Greece (1987)
Corresponding Member of the Academia National de Medicina de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1989)
Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society for Lung Cancer, Pireas, Greece (1990)
Doctor Honoris Causa of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania (2002)
Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society for Toxicology, Greece (2002)
Doctor Honoris Causa of "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2004)
Visiting Professor, University of Catania, Italy (2005)
Honorary Member of the Balkan Union of Oncology (2007)

Publications (By January 2010)
Professor D.A. Spandidos has authored more than 580 publications in English in 150 different international journals and more than 50 publications in Greek journals. His work has received over 8500 citations. His major findings have been discussed in the journals Nature, Science, New Scientist and The Economist among others.

Communications (By January 2010)
Professor D.A. Spandidos has participated with more than 1000 communications and invited talks in International Conferences.

Ph.D. Supervisor:
More than 70 graduate students have obtained their PhD degree in Greece under the supervision of Professor D.A. Spandidos and most of them are pursuing careers abroad in leading institutions in the field of cancer research as shown by work published in top biomedical journals.

Research Achievements:
Among his most significant work is included the discovery of avian reovirus (DA Spandidos and AF Graham, J Virol 19: 977, 1976 - more than 95 citations), the discovery of cellular oncogenes by gene transfer (DA Spandidos and L Siminovitch, Cell 12: 675, 1977 and DA Spandidos and L Siminovitch, Nature 271: 259, 1978), the transfer of human globin genes to hemopoietic cells (DA Spandidos and J Paul, EMBO J 1: 15, 1982 - more than 65 citations), the involvement of ras genes in colon tumours (DA Spandidos and IB Kerr, Br J Cancer 49: 681, 1984 - more than 210 citations), the mechanism of transformation by ras genes (DA Spandidos and NM Wilkie, Nature 310: 469, 1984 - more than 520 citations), the role of ras and myc genes in apoptosis (AH Wyllie, KA Rose, RG Morris, CM Steel, E Foster and DA Spandidos, Br J Cancer 56: 251, 1987 - more than 200 citations) and the involvement of p53 in head and neck carcinomas (JK Field, DA Spandidos, A Malliri, JR Gosney, M Yiagnisis and PM Stell, Br J Cancer 64: 573, 1991 - more than 250 citations) among others.

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