Socrates Tzartos () is a Greek

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and neuro-immunologist. He is

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of the Department of Pharmacy of the

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, and a researcher emeritus of the Department of Neurobiology of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens.

Career

Socrates Tzartos received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1976. He has held numerous positions during his career. He started working as a post-doctoral researcher in 1976 at the Physiological laboratory of the

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until 1978. After that he worked as a research associate at the

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until 1983 when he started working at the Institut Pasteur Paris. He worked at the Institute for 2 years after which he started working as the head of the Biochemistry Laboratory, later renamed: Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Immunology, at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in

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. Socrates has held this position until 2016 but has also worked in 1996 and 1997 as the Interim Acting General Director of the Institute.CV
/ref> In addition to his work at the Pasteur Hellenic Institute he has also held other positions at different institutions. He has taught as a professor of

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at the Department of Pharmacy at the

for more than 10 years. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Department from 2003 to 2005. Currently he is a professor emeritus at the University of Patras and a researcher emeritus at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.

Research

Socrates was awarded a total of 59 research grants. Out of them, 17 have been from the

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(6 as coordinator), 28 from other international sources (most from the muscular dystrophy organizations MDA and AFM) and 14 from Greek sources. Over the course of his career he has produced a total of 290 scientific papers (187 original papers in refereed international journals, 80 reviews and 23 papers in Greek journals).

Teaching

Socrates has been a mentor to 9 MSc students, 28 PhD students and more than 20 postdocs.

Memberships, awards and honors

He has been a member of several academic organizations both in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the Greek Society of Immunologists, Greek Society of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, Greek Society of Neurosciences, International Society of Neuroimmunology,

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, British Biochemical Society, European Peptide Society,

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, Clare Hall, Cambridge University.Department of Pharmacy employees
/ref> He has also received several awards and honors: * 1972-76: Four pre-doctoral fellowships from the Natl. Hellenic Research Foundation. * 1976-78: Two long-term Post-doctoral EMBO fellowships. * 1979-81: Two Post-doctoral fellowships from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America. * 1981-83: Two long-term Post-doctoral EMBO fellowships. * 1988-1990, 1998, 2003: 4 awards of the 14th and 16th, 24th και 29th Panhellenic Medical Symposia. * 1993: Short-term (3-month) EMBO fellowship. * 1994: Full member of EMBO (

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). * 2012-2011: Program Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras * 2013 and 2015: Participated in two Awards of the American Academy of Neurology annual Conferences, USA.

References

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