Prof. George Simos

George Simos is Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical School, University of Thessaly in Larissa, Greece. After undergraduate studies in Biochemistry (Sussex University, 1981) and Chemistry (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, 1984), Dr. Simos obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from University of Thessaloniki in 1990. He did his post-doc in the Cell Biology Program of EMBL (1990-95) and his habilitation in the Biochemie-Zentrum (BZH) of Heidelberg University (1996-2000). He has been working in Larissa since 2001. He has co-authored 76 original research papers and 13 review articles (15 as first and 34 as last or corresponding author), which have received more than 6,000 citations (h-index: 45; Google Scholar). Dr. Simos has also got one national patent. His main current research interests are the cellular response to hypoxia, focusing on the regulation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors (HIFs) and their role in metabolism and cancer progression, as well as iron homeostasis and aspects of tRNA biogenesis and nuclear transport. He has been involved in teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to Medical students since 1996 and has served in the Curriculum and Internal Evaluation committees of the Medical School of University of Thessaly.