Anastasia Bougea is a Senior Clinical Research Associate at the Department of Neurology, Aiginition University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Biomedical Research Foundation at the Academy of Athens. She completed her Ph.D. and M.S. at the University of Athens, Greece. She has 113 publications with 2007 citations and an h-index of 27 (Google scholar, 21 December 2023). Her research work is primarily in the field of biomarker evaluation for Parkinson’s disease and other atypical Parkinsonian disorders, and she participates in European and international collaborations.
Alexandros Hatzimanolis is an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He completed his B.S. in Biology and his Ph.D. in Behavioral Genetics at the same university. Before his current role, he was a Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests include Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatic Tools, DNA Sequencing, Molecular Biology, Genotyping, Genomics, Molecular Genetics, Human Genetics, Mutation Analysis, and Gene Expression.
Leonidas Stefanis is a Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained his MD from the University of Athens Medical School in 1987. He subsequently completed his Ph.D. from the same University in 1992, with work related to the molecular basis of thalassemia. In 1991, he moved to the USA, where he trained as a Resident in Neurology at Columbia University in New York. In 1995, he embarked on a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Lloyd Greene, in the Department of Pathology, while in parallel he completed a two-year fellowship on Neurobehaviour, in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University, a position which he held up till 2003. In 2003 he moved back to Greece as Researcher Level B at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) and set up a laboratory focusing on mechanisms of neurodegeneration, in particular protein degradation systems, alpha-synuclein, and PD.
Nikolaos Scarmeas is a Professor of Neurology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. After obtaining an MD degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, he moved to the USA and underwent Neurology residency training. Then he had a 2-year clinical fellowship in Aging and Dementia at Columbia University Medical Center. He also completed an M.S. in Biostatistics—Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Then he joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2002. His research interests include cognitive reserve (i.e. how higher IQ, education, more demanding occupational attainments, or more engagement in cognitive-social-physical leisure and lifestyle activities can help the elderly cope better with the damage caused to their brains by Alzheimer’s disease and aging and therefore reduce their risk of dementia and slow down their rates of cognitive and functional decline). In addition, he has extensively investigated the contribution of diet (in particular composite dietary patterns such as a Mediterranean-type diet and others) to dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive, and other aspects of aging.
Sokratis Papageorgiou is a Neurologist and Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology at the 1st Department of Neurology, University of Athens Medical School. In 1993 he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Claude-Bernard in Lyon. From 1992 to 1994 he worked as a fellow in clinical research at the Research Hospital “Frédéric Joliot” of the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique of France, in Orsay. In 1995, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Athens. He worked from 1996 to 2003 in the Neurology Department of Athens General Hospital, where, while working in general neurology, he set up a Memory Outpatient Clinic. From 2003 to 2011 he was a Lecturer and then Assistant Professor of Neurology at the 1st University Department of Neurology, University of Athens, at Eginition Hospital, where he set up a Cognitive Neurology-Movement Disorders in-patient and out-patient Unit. From January 2012 as an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology, he worked at the 2nd University Department of Neurology, University of Athens, at the University General Hospital “Attikon” as head of the Cognitive Disorders/Dementia in-patient and out-patient Unit. From March 2020 he returned to the 1st University Department of Neurology, at Eginition Hospital, and was in charge of the Memory, Cognitive Disorders and Rare Dementias Clinic, and Consultant Neurologist at the “Areteion” and “Alexandra” University Hospitals.
