Dr. Dimitris Panagopoulos CEO

 

Dr. Panagopoulos was born in 1977 in Glyfada, where he received his early education. He studied biology at the University of Crete, where he received an honorary scholarship annually. In 2000, he received his BSc degree with a specification in molecular biology.

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Later, he was accepted to the PhD program of the Biology department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He carried out his PhD Thesis research at the Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming under the supervision of Dr. George Mosialos. Each year of his studies, he was awarded the Alexander Fleming honorary scholarship. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. degree in molecular biology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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Meanwhile, he was accepted by the postgraduate MBA program at the University of Frankfurt, in 2002, holding the Wolfgang Goethe scholarship. In 2006, he received a second Ph.D. degree in biotechnology and bioinformatics from Frankfurt University.

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In 2006, Dr. Panagopoulos founded Green Biotech Hellas, a B2B biotechnology company in Germany, the USA, and Greece. Green Biotech Hellas is an official partner of Vanguard Biotechnology and was awarded the innovation award in green biotechnology in 2012, 2016, 2017, and 2023 in the EU and 2018, 2020, and 2023 in the USA.

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In 2021, Dr. Panagopoulos took over the position of the director of the scientific council of the International Research Cloud for Biochemistry & Biotechnology. During his term, he introduced the unification of research protocols between the collaborating organizations.