The symposium is dedicated to the memory of Savvas Georgiou, former Research Director at IESL‐FORTH, a good friend and an excellent colleague. This half day special event will highlight Savvas’ scientific contributions and present memories from his everyday interaction with students and colleagues. The scientific session will feature lectures from international experts on recent advances of laser surface photochemistry and related fields. This will be followed by a session portraying Savvas as a researcher, teacher and friend, with stories and anecdotes drawn through the memories of fellow researchers and students. The symposium will conclude with the inauguration of a new laboratory on advanced materials laser nano‐processing within the premises of IESL‐FORTH, named after Savvas Georgiou.

The group of Prof. John Vontas at IMBB-FORTH won an important large grant, within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 Programme. Notably, the research proposal ranked first within its thematic area, after rigorous and highly competitive evaluation. The project titled «Automated diagnostic platform, data management system and innovative communication tool, for improving the impact of malaria vector control interventions» (DMC-MALVEC), has a duration of 4 years and has been awarded a substantial sum of 3.1 M Euro.

Title: International Patent Protection
Date: 29.6.2015
Place: Seminar room Alkiviades Pagiatakis / FORTH
Presenter: Alexandros Lioumbis
European Patent Attorney
Electrical Engineer, MSc
ZBM Patents & Trademarks

Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, will host the kick-off meeting of the international project PARTHENOS

The call has now opened for the 25th Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching in memory of Vassilis Xanthopoulos and Stephanos Pnevmatikos, both professors at the University of Crete and members of the Foundation for Research & Technology (FORTH).

Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) were granted competitive funding of 3.782.583 Euros in total (1.221.547€ for IMBB-FORTH) for the proposal “Chromatin3D – Chromatin Dynamics in Development and Disease”.

Research carried out at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, the results of which were published in the international scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America”, revealed new mechanisms of gene mobility and transcriptional activation in the eukaryotic cell nucleus of immune cells.

George Garinis, a Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Crete and an affiliated group leader at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), has recently been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for his research proposal titled "Dissecting the Functional Role of Nucleotide Excision Repair in Mammals-DeFiNER."