Speaker

Dr. Stathis Gonos is a Research Director at the National Hellenic Research Foundation and a Docent at the Medical School of Örebro University in Sweden. He was recently elected Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He holds a Pharmacy degree from the University of Athens and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Glasgow (UK). He has previously served as a Research Scientist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research / University College London, and as Director General of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.

His research focuses on the genetic and environmental determinants of ageing and longevity. He has published more than 150 research articles in leading international scientific journals and book monographs, and holds international patents that have led to the development of innovative anti-ageing products.

Dr. Gonos has been invited to speak at more than 100 international conferences (including UNESCO and the European Parliament). He has served as an Expert for the European Union on “Human Development and the Ageing Process” and as Greece’s Deputy National Representative to the European Commission on “Genomics and Biotechnology for Health.” He has also served on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

He is a member of the Board of the European Society of Anti-Aging Medicine and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journals Mechanisms of Ageing & Development and IUBMB Life.