Iannis Aifantis BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr. Iannis Aifantis is an internationally recognized immunologist and cancer biologist.Born in Greece, Dr. Aifantis earned his BS degree in biology and an MS degree in molecular biology and genetics from the University of Crete. Afterwards he went to the University of Paris V where he got his Ph.D. in the laboratory of immunologist Harald von Boehmer. Later, he followed Dr. Harald von Boehmer to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and to the Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow and in 2003 he established his own laboratory at the NYU Langone Medical Center.

Dr. Aifantis is the Chairman of Department of Pathology of the NYU School of Medicine.Dr. Aifantis has earned numerous awards and honours. He was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist in 2009, he received the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, the Cancer Research Institute Young Investigator Award, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award and many more.