Professor Stephanou is Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the European University (EUC), School of Medicine (2014 – present). He is also Director/Chair of the School of Medicine Research Center. He completed his PhD at the Westminster and Charring Cross Medical School, University of London in 1992. He then did his Post-doctoral training (1992-1995) in the Department of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA, working transcriptional gene regulation. In 1995, he moved back to the UK as a postdoctoral fellow at the Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, University College London (UCL) where he studied the regulation of heat shock proteins and their cytoprotective properties. During his postdoctoral work, he developed his interest in the Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs) factors as key regulators of apoptosis. In 2002, Prof Stephanou became a Lecturer at UCL and in 2005 was promoted to a Reader/Associate Professor at UCL. His main research interests are in the field of signal transduction in pathways and mechanisms of cell death (apoptosis), cell cycle regulation and autophagy in disease models such as myocardial infarction injury and also in cancer. Since his move to EUC has also been very active in the field of phyto-chemicals and their anti-cancer effects. He has edited a book entitled “JAK-STAT Pathway in Diseases” and also in 2012 became Editor-In-Chief of the journal JAK-STAT. He also Receiving Editor in the journal Cell Death & Disease (Impact Factor 10) and Associate Editor of Cell Death Discovery (Impact Factor 7)
Education:
- 1981 -1985 University of East London BSc 2:1 (Immunology)
- 1988 -1990 Birkbeck College (London) MSc (Molecular Biology)
- 1989 -1992 Charing Cross & Westminster Med Sch PhD (Neuroimmunology)
Over 150 peer-reviewed publication
Citation: Over 23,000 & h-index 62
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j_KhFMUAAAAJ&hl=en
