Stavros Taraviras is a Professor in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and postdoctoral research appointments at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the MRC/National Institute for Medical Research in London, UK. He received a 2020 Innovator Award from the Hydrocephalus Association USA. His main research areas are focused on how extrinsic and intracellular signaling cues regulate stem fate and differentiation decisions during organogenesis and how these mechanisms participate in the pathogenetic mechanisms of human disease.