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SCHINOS project is co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code:T2EDK-00391)
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Projects

  • 2024-2025: “Bridging big omic, genetic and medical data for Precision Medicine implementation in Greece”. Financed by the European Union and Greece – NextGenerationEU through Recovery and Resilience Facility, Greece 2.0, under the  call  “Pioneering initiatives in interdisciplinary scientific domains, focusing particularly on integration with the productive network” ID 16618. (project code TAEDR-0539180)
  • 2022-2023: “Decision support systems to address Nosocomial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (MDR-CDSS). ”. ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ [NSRF 2014 –2020], Greece.
  • 2020-2023: “SCHINOS: clinical aSsessment of CHIos mastic effects in giNgivitis and Oral microbiome using advanced Sequencing techniques”. ‘This research is co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code:T2EDK-00391)
  • 2020-2023: “Bioradio”. University of Pennsylvania HEALTH SYSTEM (UPenn School of Medicine RedOnc)
  • 2020-2022: “Genetic biomarkers for brain tumors (GEBI)”. University of Pennsylvania HEALTH SYSTEM (UPenn School of Medicine RedOnc)
  • 2018-2022: “ERMIS: Elucidating disease alteRation on MIrna tranScriptions: a combined computational – experimental approach”. The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “1st Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty Members & Researchers and the Procurement of High-and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: 2563).
  • 2018-2022: “Metalasso: A platform for computational meta-analysis of Genome Wide Association Studies-GWAS”. ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ [NSRF 2014 –2020], Greece.

    The object of this project focuses on two general directions, with the existence of sections in the various points of the study:
    a) The upgrade of the JADBio statistical analysis platform to a comprehensive and automated tool that will additionally be offered through a web interface, which will be used to perform meta-analyses of data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with minimal input from the user.
    b) The development of algorithmic tools to support and carry out a study of the mechanisms of transcription regulation and the factors that influence it, with an emphasis on rare polymorphisms in the coding and non-coding regions of the genome and the use of the upgraded platform of JADBio for the their meta-analysis.
    The action allowed the extension of the AutoML platform JADBio, accessible via https://jadbio.com/, which is leveraged to build predictive models targeting biomarkers, as well as expanding our knowledge of coding and non-coding regulatory elements of the genome and transcriptome through the development of various tools and studies such as https://diana.e-ce.uth.gr/mirgenv4/tool, the DiS-TSS and DeepTSS algorithms and automated workflows located on the lab’s GitHub (https://github.com/DIANALab/METALASSO_WP2)

  • 2017-2022: “ELIXIR-GR: The Greek Research Infrastructure for Data Management and Analysis in Life Sciences”. ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ [NSRF 2014 –2020], Greece.
  • 2012-2015: PI. “Aristeia/ Excellence”. Transcription of microRNAs. General Secretary of Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece.
  • 2012-2014: PI. “Post Doc”. Epigenetics of miRNAs. General Secretary of Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece.
  • 2011-2013: PI. Synergasia (09 SYN- 13 -901). “EDGE” Development of a national genomics research network for methodolodical approach to systems.  General Secretary of Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece.
  • 2011- 2013: PI and coordinator. Synergasia ( SYN – 13-1055 ). Investigating the role of microRNA in diseases. General Secretary of Research and Technology (GSRT), Greece.
  • 2010-2011: Co- PI. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Characterization of neural crest stem cells in human follicles. 
  • 2010 – 2011: Co-PI. State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Regulation of miRNAs with emphasis on viruses. Bilateral exchange ( Greek – Germany).
  • 2007-2011: PI. PhD Fellowship for Emmanuel Maragkakis from BSRC Alexander Fleming.
  • 2007-2011: PI. PhD Fellowship for Panagiotis Alexiou from BSRC Alexander Fleming.
  • 2003-2008: PI. National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. Gene Prediction the final step (600,000 USD) – the last year of funding was not used due to relocation to Greece.
  • 2003-2004: Co- PI. Penn Genomics Institute. Prediction of miRNA binding sites.
  • 2000-2005: The European Wolbachia Project: Towards novel biotechnological approaches for control of arthropod pests and modification of beneficial arthropod species by evdosymbiotic bacteria.,(with the IMBB-FORTH, the Upsala University, the Copenhagen University, the University of Wales, the University of Cambridge, the Wageningen University and the University de Poitiers funded by the Commission of the European Communities – Principal investigator ( PI )for the Synaptic Ltd. Contribution.