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23 Feb

Assistant Professor of Physiology Konstantinos Palikaras receives the Cells 2023 Young Investigator Award

Assistant Professor of Physiology Konstantinos Palikaras receives the Cells 2023 Young Investigatior Award.     The “Cells Young Investigator Award” is a prestigious distinction award by the eminent journal Cells, renowned for its contributions to the fields of cell biology, molecular biology, and biophysics. This award recognizes the innovative work of a young investigator who […]

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29 Mar

Important distrinction of the associate professor of Physiology – Embryology Mara Simopoulou

The Department of Physiology of the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is pleased to announce the international distinction of the Associate Professor of Physiology-Embryology Mara Simopoulou as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Assessor for Centre Accreditation of Training Program in Clinical Embryology. Furthermore, Dr. Simopoulou […]

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7 Feb

Interdisciplinary scientific collaboration between the Laboratory of Physiology, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB, FORTH) and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL, FORTH), sheds light into the molecular mechanisms that regulate nuclear lipid droplets accumulation during ageing.

The findings of the study, published in the premier international scientific journal Aging Cell, reveal a fundamental quality control mechanism that regulates nuclear lipid droplets (nLDs) accumulation and safeguards the integrity and the function of the nucleus. Lipid droplets (LDs), the major form of fat storage in cells, are evolutionarily conserved intracellular organelles, which provide […]

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19 Jan

Significant Success of the “Physiologion” Physiology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine of the EKPA

The scientific organization Fondation Santé supports biomedical scientific research by providing highly competitive scholarships to excellent PhD candidates for projects to be conducted in academic institutions in Greece or Cyprus. For 2023, these scholarships titled «The Sidney Altman Scholarship Program», were awarded to only four graduates, two of whom are conducting their doctoral studies at […]

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20 Oct

2nd pMedGR and CNBPM Scientific Meeting

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10 Oct

Mani Physiology Days 2022

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1 Aug

Grand Opening of the 1st Simulation Centre

On 8 July 2020 at 12.00, at the Department of Physiology of the University of Athens Medical School, the Rector, Professor M.A. Dimopoulos, the President of the Medical School, Professor Petros Sfikakis, and the Head of Department, Professor Michalis Koutsilieris, in the company of many staff members of the Medical School, led the grand opening […]

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6 Apr

Award Ceremony Honouring Professor Michalis Koutsilieris

On Monday, 11 December 2017, the 27th ceremony for the Outstanding University Teaching Award was held in the hall of the Old Parliament in Athens, in memory of Vasilis Xanthopoulos and Stefanos Pnevmatikos. The award was presented by HE, the President of the Republic, Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos to Michalis Koutsilieris, Professor of Experimental Physiology, Medical […]

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