Constantinos Deltas studied Pharmacy at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at Rutgers Univ., State Univ. of New Jersey, USA. In 1991, while at the Duke Univ. Medical Center, NC, USA, he was invited to return to Cyprus and be among the first nucleus of scientists who established the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. He has been a Professor of Genetics at the University of Cyprus (UCY) since 2002, first at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, where he was the first chairman, and then at the Medical School. He is directing a research lab interested in inherited disorders, developing molecular genetics, cell biology, and animal model projects. With competitive funding, he established the first Biobank for genetic disorders in Cyprus in 2011. More recently, with EU and national funding, he founded and is directing biobank.cy, a Research and Innovation Center of Excellence focusing on Biobanking and Biomedical Research, at UCY. Among others, he is leading the Cyprus Human Genome Project, aimed at 1000 genomes in the first phase. He published over 150 papers and presented his work at multiple international conferences as an invited speaker. In 2014, he was honored with the Cyprus Research Award—Distinguished Researcher, which is awarded to researchers with long-standing experience in Cyprus who have demonstrated outstanding research achievements with local and international impact, honoring Cyprus.