Research Assistant Professor
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr. Fotios Mpekris earned a BS degree (with an excellent GPA) in Physics from the University of Cyprus in 2012 and the same year, he joined with a scholarship the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus (UCY) and the Cancer Biophysics Laboratory in particular as a PhD student. He received his PhD in November 2016 from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus (UCY) and the Cancer Biophysics Laboratory in particular. Since then he had been a Postdoctoral fellow at the Cancer Biophysics Laboratory and a Part time Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and the University of Nicosia until October 2023. Recently he had secured a highly selective research grant by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, MMSCancer, 1.5M euros) and he took over a faculty position of Research Assistant Professor at UCY. Furthermore, he is the Head of Tumor Mechanopathophysiology Lab . His research activity focuses on the study of the mechanical forces generated during tumor progression and how taming these forces can improve therapeutic outcomes in many cancers. During his research career, he has secured close to 1.9M euros in research funding as a Principal Investigator.
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Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Delivery I
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CET
