as surgeon. In 1989 he received Fulbright Scholarship and his research included biotechnology/biomedical photonics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, CA, USA. In 1994 he worked part time at FORTH, Greece and in1995-1997 at the LMT gGmbh, Berlin. He received several research grants from NIH, DOD, DOC- USA & EU FP 4-5. In 2002 Dr. Vari established the International Research and Innovation in Medicine (IRIM) Program at CSMC. In 2006 Dr. Vari organized the Regional Cooperation for Health, Science and Technology (RECOOP HST) Consortium with Cedars–Sinai Medical Center and eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) universities and academic organizations from seven countries. In 2011 twenty universities and research organizations were members or associate members of the Consortium. In 2014 the RECOOP HST Consortium was converted into Association. From 2014 Dr. Vari organized and implemented 39 RECOOP projects including studies related to gestational diabetes, mother milk composition changes due to nutritional factors, and low-grade inflammation, platelet activation , glycolisation of immunoglobulins during GDM and PE.