Dr. Eva Kassi graduated with distinction from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School in 1991. She then completed her internal medicine training and residency in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, “G.Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens, and she became a certified endocrinologist (2001). She was research fellow at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (2000). She received her PhD (2004) in Biochemistry. In 2006 she became Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry; since 2011, she worked as Assistant Professor of Biochemisty/Molecular Endocrinology, in the Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. At 2013 she was appointed as Consultant Endocrinologist at the Unit of Endocrinology, Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic diseases of 1st Department of Internal Medicine, at Laiko Hospital, University of Athens, Greece. From March 2020, she is working at the Unit of Endocrinology Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic diseases of the First Department of Propedeutic and Internal Medicine with clinical, research and teaching commitments. In 2016, she became Associate Professor of Molecular Endocrinology and Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, NKUA, Athens, Greece. Since 2021 she is Professor of Biochemistry-Endocrinology in Medical School, NKUA. Since 2020