Affiliation: University of Athens
Keywords: ageing, age-related diseases, autophagy, cell biology, cellular physiology,
DNA damage response, energy metabolism, healthspan, homeostasis, in vivo
imaging, model organisms, mitochondria, mitophagy, neuron,
neurodegeneration, stress, nematodes, longevity, lysosomes, oxidative
stress, organismal physiology, peroxisomes
Full profile: Konstantinos Palikaras is Assistant Professor of Experimental Physiology
at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Athens, Greece. He is a molecular biologist who has great experience in energy metabolism, autophagy and ageing. His research
focuses on studies of autophagy, mitophagy and cellular homeostasis investigating the role of energy metabolism in neuronal physiology and
survival. His main interests are the molecular mechanisms of necrotic and mitophagic cell death and their interplay between cellular metabolism and ageing, and the development of novel genetic tools for biomedical
research.
For his scientific accomplishments, Konstantinos Palikaras has
received several notable scientific prizes including ERC Starting Grant (2022). He is also the recipient of the “Fotis Kafatos” Award for excellence in biology from Hellenic Society of Bioscientists, a Research Grant from Fondation Santé, the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) grant for youg investigators, the AXA Research Fund Post-doctoral fellowship, the Bodossaki Foundation Post-doctoral fellowship, the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics form Genetic Society of America and the Manasaki Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Crete. He is also a member of Genetics Society of America (GSA), the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (HSBMB), the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience (HSfN) and the Hellenic Initiative Against Alzheimer’s Disease (HIAAD).