Prof. Maria Eleni Manthou is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She graduated in 2001 and specialized in Surgical Pathology/Cytology. She worked as an academic teacher in the Medical School of AUTH teaching "Histology and Embryology" during the time 2008–2010. In 2014 she was appointed to the Laboratory of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, AUTH, teaching medical students and students of dentistry Histology, Embryology, and Clinical Embryology. She continues this work today, as an Associate Professor. She was accepted as a Scientific Assistant in the Department of Anatomy-Histology and Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, in 2003, and a Scientific Assistant and member of the research team in the Laboratory of Anatomy at the University of Cologne in Germany, in 2012. Since 2017, she has been part of a research group working on in vitro regeneration of hyaline cartilage from mesenchymal cells.