E-mail:   george.delinasios@iiar-anticancer.org

Tel: 00302295053389

Address: International Institute of Anticancer Research (IIAR), 1st km Kapandritiou- Kalamou Rd., P.O.Box 22, Kapandriti, Attiki 19014, Greece

Date of birth: 23 December 1985

Place of birth: Athens, Greece

EDUCATION

 October 2007-October 2011: PhD, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College, London, U.K.

Research Project: “The detection of UVR-induced oxidative stress in human skin cells and its possible prevention by anti-oxidants”.
Supervisor 1: Prof. Antony Young, St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College School of Medicine.
Supervisor 2: Dr. Marcus Cooke, Department of Cancer Studies, University of Leicester.

October 2006-August 2007: MSc (Distinction) Biomedical Sciences Research, King’s College, London, U.K.

Research Project: “Development of T-cell immunotherapy for solid tumours using gene-modified T-cells”.
Supervisor: Dr. John Maher, Academic Oncology Department, Thomas Guy House, Guy’s Hospital.

October 2003-June 2006: B.Sc. Biochemistry, King’s College, London, U.K.

WORK

January 2012-2016: Research Associate, International Institute of Anticancer Research, Kapandriti, Greece

January 2016-Present: Managing Editor & Executive Publisher of the Journals ANTICANCER RESEARCH, IN VIVO, and CANCER GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS, International Institute of Anticancer Research, Kapandriti, Greece

PUBLICATIONS

• Perspectives on Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers – Rise of the Dark Dimers; Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2021
  Lawrence, K.P., Delinasios, G.J., Premi, S., Young, A.R. and Cooke, M.S
• The Experience of Greece as a Model to Contain COVID-19 Infection Spread; In Vivo, 2021, 35 (2) 1285-1294
  George J. Delinasios, Paraskevi C. Fragkou, Athina M. Gkirmpa, George Tsangaris, Robert M. Hoffman, Athanasios K. Anagnostopoulos
• DNA Replication Inhibitor Geminin and Retinoic Acid Signaling Participate in Complex Interactions Associated With Pluripotency; Cancer Genomics & Proteomics, 2019, 16(6):593-601
  Champeris-Tsaniras Spyridon, Delinasios George,  Petropoulos Michalis, Panagopoulos Andreas, Anagnostopoulos Athanasios, Villiou Maria, Vlachakis Dimitrios, Bravou, Vasiliki Stathopoulos Georgios, Taraviras Stavros
• Vitamin E inhibits the UVAI induction of “light” and “dark” cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, and oxidatively generated DNA damage, in keratinocytes; Sci Rep, 2018, 8(1):423
  George J. Delinasios, Mahsa Karbaschi, Marcus S. Cooke and Antony R. Young
• Teaming Up for Trouble: Cancer Cells, Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Signaling and the Epigenetic Corruption of Stromal Naïve Fibroblasts; Cancers (Basel), 2018, 10(3), pii: E61
  Sergio Lamprecht, Ina Sigal-Batikoff, Shraga Shany, Naim Abu-Freha, Eduard Ling, George J. Delinasios, Keren Moyal-Atias, John G. Delinasios and Alexander Fich
• Proliferating fibroblasts and HeLa cells co-cultured in vitro reciprocally influence growth patterns, protein expression, chromatin features and cell survival; Anticancer Res, 2015, 35(4):1881-916
  John G. Delinasios, Flora Angeli, George Koumakis, Shant Kumar, Wen-Hui Kang, Gigliola Sica, Fortunata Iacopino, Gina Lama, Sergio Lamprecht, Ina Sigal-Batikoff, George T. Tsangaris, Christos D. Farfarelos, Maria C. Farfarelos, Eleftherios Vairaktaris, Stavros Vassiliou and George J. Delinasios
• Rescue of cells from apoptosis increases DNA repair in UVB exposed cells: implications for the DNA damage response, 2015, 4, 725-738
  Mahsa Karbaschi,  Salvador Macip, Vilas Mistry,  Hussein H. K. Abbas,   George J. Delinassios,  Mark D. Evans,  Antony R. Young and  Marcus S. Cooke
• Flexible targeting of ErbB dimers that drive tumorigenesis by using genetically engineered T cells; Mol Med. 2012, 18:565-76
  David M Davies, Julie Foster, Sjoukje J C van der Stegen, Ana C Parente-Pereira, Laura Chiapero-Stanke, George J Delinassios, Sophie E Burbridge, Vincent Kao, Zhe Liu, Leticia Bosshard-Carter, May C I van Schalkwyk, Carol Box, Suzanne A Eccles, Stephen J Mather, Scott Wilkie and John Maher

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

• British Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2010 Annual Meeting, Edinburgh
  Inhibition of ultraviolet A-induced DNA damage by vitamin E
  G.J. Delinassios, M.S. Cooke and A.R. Young
• European Society of Photobiology Meeting, 2009, Wroclaw, Poland
  Inhibition of cellular oxidative stress in keratinocytes by α-tocopherol
  G.J. Delinassios, M.S. Cooke and A.R. Young