Aristidis Moustakas, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Univ., Full Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research & Senior Investigator, Swedish Cancer Society. Born in Greece, got a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, earned his Ph. D. in Genetics at the Univ. of Minnesota, USA, and joined the laboratory of Dr. Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts, USA, where he began to investigate the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), a cell-to-cell signaling protein that regulates a wide spectrum of biological processes. He moved to the Univ. of Crete at Heraklion as adjunct Assistant Professor in 1996 and to Sweden in 1998 where he joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research-Uppsala Branch as an Assistant Member. He became Associate Member in 2004 and Full Member in 2010, when he also received a prestigious Senior Investigator position by the Swedish Cancer Society. In 2010 he also became affiliated with the Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala Univ., where he currently is a Professor. In Uppsala he established the TGFβ Signaling Group in 1999 and his second laboratory, Signal Transduction and Epithelial Plasticity at the Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology in 2012, which today include fourteen members of eight different nationalities researching on signal transduction and cancer biology.
Education
PhD, Genetics, University of Minnesota, USA, 1991
BSc, Biology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1985
Achievements
National Fellowship Foundation, University Excellence Fellowship, Greece, 1981-85
Institute of Human Genetics Graduate Fellowship, University of Minnesota, USA, 1985-86
Alexander Onassis Foundation Fellowship, Greece, 1986-88
Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, USA, 1989-90
The Anna Fuller Fund Post-doctoral Fellowship, USA, 1991-93
Top-Ten Graduate Award, Biology Department 30-year celebration, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003
Best reviewer of the year 2008, Swedish Research Council Evaluation Panels, 2008
Senior Investigator Award, Swedish Cancer Society, 2010
Docent, Medical Biochemistry, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 2011
