Journal of Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacoproteomics

Konstantinos Voskarides

Konstantinos Voskarides
Special Scientist at Medical School of University of Cyprus. Teaching Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics
Turkey

Biography

Dr Konstantinos Voskarides has received his PhD in University of Cyprus during the period of 2003-2008. Currently, he is working as researcher in genetics and as teaching staff in the Medical School at University of Cyprus. His research has mainly included until now: genetic investigation of familial renal diseases and related modifier genes, population studies of genetic variants predisposing for multifactorial and pharmacological traits, evolutionary interactions between different genomic elements, theoretical models in evolution, DNA repair genes and evolution. He is serving as an expert Reviewer in several reputed journals like CJASN, Journal of Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacoproteomics, Journal of Phylogenetics & Evolutionary Biology, BMC Medical Genetics, PLOS ONE, Pediatric Nephrology and others. He has authored about 30 research articles in peer review journals and has also edited a book in Springer publishing group entitled: “Genomic Elements in Health, Disease and Evolution: junk DNA” (1st edition 2015).

Research Interest

Medical Genetics: Glomerulopathies gene tics , g enetic linkage analysis and genetic mapping , m odifier genes in renal diseases , ep idemiology of familial diseases, p odocytes biology , g enetic s of diabetes type 2 and of micro - albuminuria.

Evolutionary and population genetics: Evolutionary interactions between different genomic elements , theoretical models in evolution, DNA repair genes and evolution, p hylogenetics and phylogeography , molecular clock methods , experimental evolution