HBA-USA members that conduct research on "Computational Biology"



- Biomedical Systems Simulation

Christos Argyropoulos
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Fellow - Renal and Electrolyte Division
Statistical Methods of High Throughput Gene Quantification Technologies, Modelling and Simulation of Biomedical Systems
argyropoulosc@upmc.edu



- Cancer

Leonidas Alexopoulos
Harvard Medical School / MIT, Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering, Cancer, Computational Biology, Systems Biology
Currently I'm working on a collaborative effort between MIT, HMS, and Pfizer to explore signaling networks of liver cells using a systems biology approach.
Applications of this research is on drug development, efficacy, and toxicity. I have also accepted a lecturer position at the National Technical University
of Athens (starting on Feb 2008). My research in Athens will focus on systems biology and bioengineering.
leonidas@mit.edu

Emmanouil D. Karagiannis
Harvard/MIT HST - Koch Cancer Institute/MIT, Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Angiogenesis, Peptide based drug design optimization and delivery, Extracellular matrix biochemistry and biology, Systems biology and combinatorial high throughput
approaches for drug design and tissue engineering
ekaragia@mit.edu


- Diabetes

Anna Pisania
MIT, Post-doctoral fellow
Biomedical Engineering
apisania@mit.edu



- Drug design

Dimitris Agrafiotis
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Vice-President of Informatics
Computer-assisted drug design, combinatorial chemistry and organic synthesis, molecular diversity, QSAR, artificial intelligence, software engineering
http://www.dimitris-agrafiotis.com/
dagrafio@prdus.jnj.com

Marianthi Markatou
Columbia University and USFDA, Professor
Biostatistics,Safety research, pharmacogenomics, drug development,computational methods
Very broad research interests and at the interface of applied mathematics, statistics and computer science. Informatics methods and machine learning techniques are an
integral part of my research and applied to safety issues, adverse event identification and pharmacogenomics
mm168@columbia.edu



- Human Genomics

Andy Baxevanis
National Human Genome Research Institute, Director, Computational Genomics Program
andy@nhgri.nih.gov

Manolis Kellis
MIT, Assistant Professor
Human genome, gene regulation, microRNAs, comparative genomics, gene identification, motif discovery
manoli@mit.edu



- Microbial Genomics

Nikos Kyrpides
DOE Joint Genome Institute, Head of the Genome Biology Program
Microbial Genomics, Environmental Genomics
nckyrpides@lbl.gov


- Evolution

Dimitra Chalkia
University of California, Irvine, Post-doctoral scholar
Role of naturally occurring human mitochondrial DNA variation in human health and disease; theoretical studies on the evolution of mitochondrial genes
dchalkia@uci.edu

Nikolas Nikolaidis
California State University, Fullerton, Assistant Professor
nnikolaidis@fullerton.edu



- Immune system signaling

Philippos Tsourkas
UC Davis, Post-doctoral fellow
Computational modeling of receptor-ligand mediated cellular processes, with emphasis on the immune system (B-cell receptor clustering and
activation, Neutrophil arrest in shear flow) and signaling processes (EGFR dimerization and activation, airway epithelial cell fate), Agent-Based
Models (ABMs)
tsourkpk@yahoo.com



- Neuroscience

Nikolaos Patsopoulos MD, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow
Statistical Genetics
npatsopoulos@rics.bwh.harvard.edu


- Population Genetics

Vanessa Xanthakis
Boston University, PhD Student
Biostatistics
vanessax@bu.edu



- Protein Engineering

George Georgiou  
University of Texas, Joan and K. Cury/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair
Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Development of High Throughput Screening Technologies for Protein engineering,
Engineering of Therapeutic and Diagnostic Antibodies
gg@che.utexas.edu

Pavlos Maragakis
D. E. Shaw Research, Research Scientist
Computational Biophysics; Computational Biochemistry, Trying to understand the microscopic mechanisms of floppy, sticky, fluctuating, ever-changing proteins


- Technique discovery/optimization

Athanasia Spandidos
Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital,  Research Fellow
Development of new technologies for molecular biology
ASPANDIDOS@CCIB.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Hellenic Bioscientific Association in the USA
HBA-USA