Christos Yapijakis is a medical geneticist, currently Associate Professor of Genetics at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School and Director of the Cephalogenetics Diagnostic Center in Athens, Greece. He has extensive experience in research, clinical diagnosis of craniofacial diseases, genetic counseling, and teaching. His education at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and the University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A. includes diplomas in Biology (BS) and Dental Medicine (DMD), a master's degree in Molecular Biology (M.S.), and a doctorate (Ph.D) in Human/Medical Genetics. He has been a visiting researcher at Mount Sinai Medical School, U.S.A. and at European Medical Genetics Centers in the UK, Italy, Belgium, and Cyprus. He has participated in several European Union BIOMED projects as a representative of his Athens group. He has established two research facilities at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Neurogenetics Unit and Orofacial Genetics Unit, that were the first of their kind in Greece. He has also established two private molecular genetic diagnostic laboratories. He is currently Head of the Unit of Orofacial Genetics in the 1st Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Kapodistrian University of Athens. His scientific research work has been focused mainly on human neurogenetic diseases, craniofacial and orofacial syndromes, oral cancer, male infertility, and thrombosis.