International Manual of Oncology Practice (PDF)

applications at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, National Science Centre, Kraków, Poland, and the British Lung Foundation, London, UK. Prof. de Mello is an active member of the ESMO Young Oncologist Committee and consultant at Pfizer gastric cancer advisory board.

SHORT CV GIANNIS MOUNTZIOS MD, MSc, PhD

Dr Giannis Mountzios was born in Larissa, Greece, in 1974. He obtained his medical degree (MD) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998 with a scholarship from the Greek Ministry of Education and graduated from the Hellenic Military Medical Academy the same year. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Airforce General Hospital of Athens and in Medical Oncology at the University of Athens School of Medicine, "Alexandra" University Hospital (Pr. M.A. Dimopoulos). He then obtained a master (MSc) in translational and clinical research in Oncology from the Institut Gustave-Roussy and the University Paris XI (Paris-Sud), France, in 2007 (Pr. Jean-Charles Soria) and became board-specified in Medical Oncology in 2009. In 2010 he obtained his PhD in Medical Oncology from the University of Athens School of Medicine. He is currently working as a consultant Medical Oncologist at the University of Athens School of Medicine. Dr Mountzios has received fellowships from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Young Investigator award), the European Society for Medical Oncology (Annual Fellowship for Translational Research in 2005, Annual Fellowship for Clinical Research in 2009) and the Hellenic Society for Medical Oncology (HESMO). He is currently the General Secretary of the board of directors of HESMO, former chair of the HESMO young medical oncologists committee and former member of the steering committee of the young medical oncologists of ESMO.

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Álvaro Tavares

Álvaro A. Tavares, born in 1964, obtained his degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He later obtained a M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the New University of Lisbon, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto, Portugal. He then moved to Scotland where for five years was a Post-doctoral at the Department of Anatomy and Physiology of the University of Dundee. In 1999, having been appointed professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico , Lisbon, he started his own research group at the Gulbenkian Science Institute. In 2009 he moved to the University of Algarve, to the newly formed Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, where he currently directs the Cell Division and Cancer Biology Research Group.

In the course of his research career, Álvaro Tavares has studied proteolytic systems in rat liver mitochondria, proteolysis regulation in differentiation in the plant Lupinus albus, genetic regulation and expression in yeast S. cereviseae, and molecular and genetic characterization of genes required for cell proliferation in Drosophila melanogaster. The underlying theme behind the current work of his laboratory is the basic biology of mitotic cell division, in particular the aspects regulating the formation of a bipolar mitotic spindle and the connection between centrosomes and cytokinesis. The ultimate goal is to understand how modifications of these processes contribute to the transformation of normal into cancer cells. These problems are approached through a combination of biochemical, genetic and cytologic techniques, taking advantage of Drosophila melanogaster genetics and human tissue cultured cells.