Dr. Michail Spanos graduated with an MD from the National and Kapodistrian University. He has trained in clinical and research settings at several institutions, including the Mount Sinai Heart Division, New York (2016), the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia (2016), and the Milstein Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Hospital (2018). Since 2020, Dr. Spanos has served as a postdoctoral research scientist and physician at the Cardiovascular Research Center at MGH and Harvard Medical School. In 2022, he received the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Post Graduate Scholarship and the New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society Research Scholarship. In 2024 he initiated his PhD studies at the Cardiovascular Research Center at MGH and Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the extracellular non-coding transcriptional landscape, particularly on exRNAs from different biofluids, as potential biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. This work contributes to the understanding and application of circulating RNA in therapeutic and diagnostic settings, specifically in cardiovascular diseases.