Fotis Kafatos

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Fotis Kafatos

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Fotis Kafatos in 2008
Born
Φώτης Κωνσταντίνος Καφάτος
Fotis Constantine Kafatos

(1940-04-16)16 April 1940[3]
Heraklion, Crete, Greece[4]
Died18 November 2017(2017-11-18) (aged 77)
Heraklion, Crete, Greece[3]
Alma materCornell University (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsImperial College London
European Research Council
Cornell University
Harvard University
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
University of Crete
Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas
ThesisThe escape of moths from the cocoon: biochemical, physiological, morphological, and developmental studies (1965)
Doctoral advisorCarroll Williams[2]
Other academic advisorsThomas Eisner[citation needed]
Websiteopenwetware.org/wiki/Kafatos:Fotis_C._Kafatos

Fotis Constantine Kafatos (Greek: Φώτης Κ. Καφάτος; 16 April 1940 – 18 November 2017) was a Greek biologist.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Between 2007-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council (ERC).[11][12] He chaired the ERC Scientific Council from 2006-2010. Thereafter, he was appointed Honorary President of the ERC.[13][14]

Education

Fotis Kafatos graduated from the Lyceum Korais in Heraklion in 1958 and from

PhD at Harvard in 1965 for research on entomology, supervised by Carroll Williams.[2]

Research and career

Fotis Kafatos was an influential Greek

University of Athens, the Faculty of Biology in the University of Crete and the IMBB in Heraklion.[4]

At the beginning of his career, he contributed to the development of the complementary DNA (cDNA) cloning technology and worked on the mechanisms of cellular differentiation leading to the formation of the eggs in insects.[15][16] He has particular interest in malaria research and used his knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of insects to understand how the insect vector copes with the Plasmodium parasite. He also participated in the sequencing of the genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae completed in 2002.[17][18]

He was Assistant Professor and later Professor and Chairman of the department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Harvard University, Professor of Biology at the

Imperial College in London.[23] In 2007, he was appointed as the first President of the European Research Council.[24]

Awards and honours

Kafatos was a member of the US

Robert Koch Medal in Gold in 2010, the BioMalPar.EviPalaR Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Leibnitz Medal in 2011.[citation needed] He was also a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[citation needed] and of the Greek Order of the Phoenix,[citation needed] as well as other awards and honorary degrees in Greece and elsewhere.[citation needed
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Personal life

Fotis Kafatos was the son of Constantine and Helen Kafatos, had two brothers named Antonis and Menas, and lived until age 18 with his family in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.[citation needed] He married Sarah Niles in 1967 and they had two daughters, Helen and Zoe Myrto, and four grandchildren.[citation needed]

External links

References

  1. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Fotis C. Kafatos". people.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
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  3. ^ a b "Έφυγε από τη ζωή ο κορυφαίος Κρητικός βιολόγος Φ. Καφάτος - Νέα Κρήτη". www.neakriti.gr. 18 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Anon (2017). "Obituary Fotis Kafatos: 16th April 1940 – 18th November 2017" (PDF). imbb.forth.gr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2017.
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  13. ^ Biography at European Research Council Archived 9 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Anon (2017). "In Memoriam Fotis Kafatos".
  15. ^ PubMed references (free full text references)
  16. ^ Video and audio interview with Kafatos at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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  18. PMID 1763031
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  19. ^ "Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology". imbb.forth.gr.
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  21. PMID 8459842
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  22. ^ EMBL. "EMBL History - EMBL". www.embl.de.
  23. ^ Fotis Kafatos publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  24. S2CID 205949728
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  25. S2CID 218685745
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