Nikos K. Moschonas is Professor Emeritus of Medical Molecular Genetics and former Director of the Laboratory of General Biology at the School of Medicine of the University of Patras. He is also a Corresponding Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). He studied Biology and Developmental–Evolutionary Biology at the Universities of Patras, Athens, and Harvard, and specialized in Medical Molecular Genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research (MRC), London.
He served as Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Crete, where he headed the Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, and later as Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Patras, from which he retired in 2020. Since 1983, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in subjects such as Medical Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
His research work focuses on Medical Molecular Genetics and Functional Genomics, with emphasis on the molecular architecture of genetic diseases, Systems Biology, and the analysis of protein interaction networks and genetic disorders. His research team participated continuously, from 1990 to 2004, in the International Human Genome Project. He has supervised postgraduate and doctoral theses, coordinated international and national research programs, and published extensive scientific work in high-impact international journals.
