ISSN: 2578-6512
Director
Department of Cytopathology
Sismanoglio General Hospital
Greece
Tel: 011-302132058951
Dr. Nicoletta Maounis is Director of the Department of Cytopathology at "Sismanoglio" General Hospital, Athens, Greece and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Dr. Maounis attained her medical and PhD degrees from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and completed her residency training in Cytopathology at the Hellenic Cancer Hospital "Agios Savvas" in Athens, Greece. She also pursued postgraduate training in molecular biology at the Wistar Institute of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maounis's research interests are centered on correlating cytomorphologic features, DNA image analysis, and immunocytochemical/molecular markers with biological behavior and clinical outcomes in human cancers with emphasis on tumors of the breast and lung. In recent years, her research has focused on alterations of the microtubule cytoskeleton in cancer, in collaboration with Professor Christos D. Katsetos at Drexel University School of Medicine. This line of investigation has brought to light an emerging key role of Gamma-tubulin and Gamma-tubulin complex proteins in diverse tumor types including non-small cell lung cancer and glioblastomas. Results of her research has been presented at national and international conferences and published in peer reviewed journals.
