Demetrios Spandidos Professor Emeritus

Name：Demetrios Spandidos

Affiliation：Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Position：Professor Emeritus

Title：BSc, PhD, FRCPath, DSc, FRSH, FASA, MAE, Dr. h.c.mult.

Professor Spandidos obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, his PhD in Biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and his DSc in Genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Pathology (in Clinical Virology) (FRCPath), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health (FRSH), a Fellow of the International Society of Hematology (FISH), a Fellow of the American Society of Angiology (FASA), a corresponding member of the National Academy of Buenos Aires, Argentina and an elected member of Academia Europeae (MAE). He is an Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca in Romania. He worked at the Theagenio Cancer Institute in Thessaloniki, the Hellenic Anticancer Hospital, the Hellenic Pasteur Institute and the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, and the Medical School and University Hospital in Heraklion, Greece,

Research Interests and the Main Funding

The main fields of research are in the areas of Molecular Oncology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Virology, with the discovery of cellular oncogenes by gene transfer being his

most prominent achievement. 

Main Academic Honors

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)

Member of Academia Europaea

Representative Papers (<5)

1. SPANDIDOS DA and Graham AF: Physical and chemical characterization of an avian reovirus. Journal of Virology 19: 968-976, 1976.

2. SPANDIDOS DA and Siminovitch L: Transfer of the marker for the morphologically transformed phenotype by isolated chromosomes in hamsters cells. Nature 271: 259-261, 1978.

3. SPANDIDOS DA and Wilkie NM: Malignant transformation of early passage rodent cells by a single mutated human oncogene. Nature 310: 469-475, 1984.

4.  Zur Hausen H, Mammas IN and SPANDIDOS DA. Editorial: HPV vaccination in boys: Determining the clinical relevance of this strategy. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 14: 3327-3328, 2017.

5. Lempesis IG, Georgakopoulou VE, Papalexis P, Chrousos GP and SPANDIDOS DA. Role of stress in the pathogenesis of cancer (Review). International Journal of Oncology 63: Article No. 124, 2023.

Other Academic Achievements

Research Director, Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, Athens, Greece.