GREGORY PAPAGREGORIOU

RESEARCH FELLOW
Molecular Medicine Research Center
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus

Academician Medicine
Biography

2000-2005 BSc in Biology, Aristotele’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece 2005-2006 MRes in Medical & Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle, UK 2006-2012 PhD in Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus 2012-Present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Molecular Medicine Research Center, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus

Research Intrest

Next-Generation Sequencing of familial or sporadic hematuria cases • miRNAs as modifiers of gene transcription • Copy-number variation analysis in patients with CFHR5 nephropathy • Molecular genetics and miRNA function in familial and sporadic renal diseases. • Urine miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers of disease progression in familial hematurias • Identification and functional analysis of MIRSNPs in patients with variable progression of renal disease • Molecular genetics of Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease type 1 (MCKD1)

List of Publications
Papagregoriou G, Hadjipanagi D, Voskarides K, Stylianou K, Athanasiou Y, et al (2015) Investigation of Alport and Alport-like cases through NGS technology reveals digenic and contigouous gene syndrome inheritance (In preparation)
Nagara M, Voskarides K, Elouej S, Zaravinos A, Riahi Z,et al 2014 A novel splice-site mutation in ATP6V0A4 gene in two brothers with distal renal tubular acidosis from a consanguineous Tunisian family. J Genet. 2014 Dec;93(3):859-63.