Dr Efstratios Stratikos

Dr. Efstratios Stratikos studied chemistry at the University of Athens from 1989 to 1994 and received a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois in 1999. After postdoctoral training in Structural and Molecular biology at Harvard University, in 2005 he returned to Greece where he established the Protein Chemistry laboratory at the National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, where he is currently employed at the rank of research director. His main research interests revolve around understanding complex biological systems at the molecular and atomic level as well as applying this understanding to the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for human disease. A main project in his lab has been the elucidation of the mechanisms of intracellular antigen processing as well as the role of this biochemical pathway in regulating immune responses.