Angeliki Magklara

Biography

Angeliki Magklara is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina. She received her Bachelor's degree from the Department of Biology and her Master's on Clinical Biochemistry from the Department of Chemistry at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Having developed an interest in cancer biology, she moved to the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she worked for her PhD thesis on the characterization of new members of the human kallikrein gene family and their evaluation as potential new tumor biomarkers (supervisor Dr. E.P. Diamandis). Later on, she joined, for her post-doctoral training, the Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression at the National Institutes of Health (NCI/NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, where she worked on mechanisms of action of the progesterone receptor in breast cancer (supervisor Dr. C.L. Smith). Her newly developed research interests in epigenetics and her wish to obtain experience working with animal models led her to the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), where she worked at Dr. S. Lomvardas' laboratory. There, she studied mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of the olfactory receptor genes in mice. In 2010 she was elected Lecturer of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Ioannina. In 2012 she was awarded a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant and she moved back to Greece, where she joined the Biomedical Research Department of IMBB at Ioannina. In January 2014, she assumed her academic position. Her current research interests lie in the field of cancer epigenetics and cancer stem cells.    

Research Interest

Biomedical Research, Biology