) Spyros E. Zographos is principal investigator of the Structural Biology and Chemistry Group at the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology (IBMCB). He is a chemist with vast experience in molecular biology, biochemistry and structural biology. He earned his Bachelor’s (1992) and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Athens, Greece, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. He served as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cyprus (UCY) (2000-2001) and afterwards as a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, UCY (2001-2004). He was awarded a Marie Curie reintegration grant and in 2004 joined IBMCB as a postdoctoral research fellow. He became an Assistant researcher in 2006 and a senior researcher in 2010. Spyros Zographos has deposited 145 protein structures at the Protein Data Bank, 30% of which were released in the last 3 years. His scientific achievements are presented in 55 peer-reviewed articles (h-index: 24, i10-index: 39, Times Cited: total 1,751; excluding self cited 1,538), 3 reviews, 4 chapters in books, 47 oral /poster presentations in conferences and 23 short communications. Dr. Spyros Zographos has significant teaching experience. As a visiting lecturer at the Chemistry Department of University of Cyprus, he taught Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry, X-ray Protein Crystallography to undergraduate students and also Enzymology-Structural Biology as part of a postgraduate course. He is teaching Enzymology at the MSc Program in Food Science and Technology of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and the joint MSc program in “Bioentrepreneurship” of University of Thessaly and NHRF. Furthermore, he has been co-organizer and/or tutor for 9 workshops and 2 international scientific symposiums on structure-based drug design. He is supervising /has supervised 2 PhD Thesis, 7 MSc and 7 final year research projects and 2 Internships. His research activities have been supported by 10 EU (2 as coordinator), 7 national (3 as coordinator) and 3 Cypriot research grants (1 as coordinator) as well as by 2 collaborative projects with Sanofi-Aventis Pharma and Pfizer Inc., USA. He has received 11 EU travel grants for X-ray crystallographic data collection (more than 500 shifts) and HT-protein expression at EU large scale facilities/laboratories. 

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