Dr. Ioannis Sarigiannis

Health Sciences

Dr Yiannis Sarigiannis is currently Assοciate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences of UNIC Athens. He obtained his Diploma in Chemistry (1998), his MSc (2000) and his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry (2006) from the University of Patras, Patras Greece. Then he performed postdoctoral research at the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Patras (Patras, Greece), whereas he was Visitor Scientist at the ISPA – Bari (Bari, Italy). For several years he was teaching Chemistry at the University of Peloponnese, former TEI Kalamatas. Later, he worked as Senior Post -Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (August 2014 – August 2016) in Complement Therapeutics under the supervision of Professor Lambris. He has developed broad research activities covering mostly synthetic and analytical aspects of chemistry. He mainly works with bioinspired peptides with multiple applications as therapeutics, biomaterials and/or diagnostics. Research results have been published in 4 5 Scopus indexed journals, 6 book chapters and more than 70 abstracts in International Conferences.