Speaker
Vassilis Gorgoulis
Professor and Director, Laboratory of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Professor Vassilis G. Gorgoulis, M.D., Ph.D., is a distinguished graduate and Doctor of Medicine of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and is board-certified in Anatomical Pathology. In 2011, following successive academic appointments across all faculty ranks, he was elected Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Histology and Embryology at the Medical School of NKUA. He was recently elected Professor and Chair of Clinical and Molecular Pathology at the Medical School of the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. He also serves as Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences of the University of Manchester (UK), Affiliated Professor at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Surrey (UK). He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS), and the Academia Europaea (AE).
His research focuses on cancer biology, cellular senescence and ageing, DNA damage response and genome stability, cell cycle regulation, as well as the development of artificial intelligence algorithms for predicting biological responses and patient outcomes in anticancer therapies. He has authored more than 360 peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals including Nature, Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Molecular Cell, Genome Biology, Nature Protocols, EMBO Journal, PNAS, and Cell Reports, with approximately 48,100 citations and an h-index of 87. He has delivered more than 250 presentations at conferences, authored 16 book chapters, and is editor of an international academic volume.
He has received more than 30 awards and distinctions and serves as a reviewer for over 65 international scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, Molecular Cell, Cancer Cell, and EMBO Journal, as well as for 30 national and international research funding organizations including the European Research Council (ERC), EMBO Young Investigators, and Cancer Research UK.