Antreas Afantitis PhD, MBA

As an independent consultant he has managed the implementation of information technology systems in a number of sectors including retail, distribution, logistics and e-commerce.  He is the director of NovaMechanics Ltd, being responsible for the overall management, strategic direction, growth and financial control. Antreas has a strong scientific background in the field of chemoinformatics, bioinformatics and medicinal chemistry. His scientific work has been published in 19 original research articles in international peer reviewed journals.

Olga Igglessi-Markopoulou, PhD

Dr. Olga Igglessi-Markopoulou is a Professor of Organic Chemistry and the Director of the Organic Chemistry Laboratory in the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA. She has an expertise in the organic synthesis of heterocyclic compounds (tetramic and tetronic acids, quinolinones and coumarins) and her research work has resulted in more than 70 publications in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, QSAR and related fields.

George Kollias, PhD

Dr. George Kollias received his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Athens, Greece and his Ph.D in Molecular Biology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He has post-doctoral experience in the field of gene structure and expression (Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression, National Institute for Medical Research, UK). He established the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens, Greece, and in 2000 he was appointed Director of the Institute for Immunology at the BSRC ‘Al. Fleming’. In 2002 he was appointed the Center’s President and Director. Dr Kollias is a founding member of Biomedcode Hellas SA, where he also serves as President. He has published over 120 primary research articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has received over 8500 citations. Recently, Dr Kollias was appointed coordinator of a consortium of 24 European organizations constituting MUGEN Network of Excellence on 'Functional Genomics in mutant mouse models as tools to investigate the complexity of human immunological disease".

Haralambos Sarimveis, PhD

Dr. Haralambos Sarimveis received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTUA in 1990 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the “Process ontrol and Informatics” laboratory in the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA. His research work has resulted in more than 80 publications in QSAR, modeling algorithms, process control, artificial intelligence and related fields.

Panayiotis A. Koutentis, PhD

Dr. Panayiotis A. Koutentis is Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Cyprus. He has expertise in the organic synthesis and chemistry of sulfur and nitrogen rich heterocycles. Active research themes include the design and synthesis of organic magnets based on radical, diradical polyazaacenes, the synthesis and biological screening of non-natural marine alkaloids, and the search for Hbf regenerators based on HDAC inhibitors. His research work has published in more than 30 articles in international peer reviewed journals

Georgia Melagraki PhD, MBA 

Georgia has a strong scientific background in the field of chemoinformatics, QSAR and related fields. Recently she has developed and published (2006) a virtual activity evaluation procedure in order to develop potent therapeutic agents for the treatment of different diseases by understanding the interactions at the molecular level. The main field of the application of her research is drug discovery, property design and prediction. Her scientific work has been published in 18 original research articles in international peer reviewed journals.