Athanasios G. Papavassiliou is a Professor of Biochemistry and is Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained his MD from the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1984) and his PhD from Columbia University, New York, USA (1989). He pursued postdoctoral training at the Department of Microbiology, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University and at the EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (1989-1991), where he then served as Staff Scientist (faculty position; 1991-1996). He has published 600 original research and review articles in international peer-reviewed journals [2021 JCR® CIF: 5500 MIF: 9.3; h-index: 95; i10-index: 420; total citations: >31655]. He has been the recipient of numerous national and international research awards, among them the prestigious “ICAAC Young Investigator Award” for excellence in research in the broad areas of microbiology and infectious diseases (1990, American Society for Microbiology). He has also been awarded the degree of ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ from the Faculty of Health Sciences-School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece (2013). He is an Honorary Member from Abroad of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences (elected in 2022). His research interests focus on the study of signal transduction to transcription factors in cell differentiation, tumorigenesis (cancer mechanomedicine), and certain disease pathobiologies.