Achilleas Gravanis, Professor of Pharmacology Medical School University of Crete and Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology-FORTH. He served as member of the Biomedical Research Program Committee of the European Commission, as Chairman of the Sectional Committee of Life Sciences, Hellenic National Research & Technology Council, also as member of the Council of the Hellenic Research & Innovation Foundation in charge of Life Sciences. Vice-Chair Hellenic Pharmacological Society, Affiliated Research Professor Center for Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmacy Northeastern University Boston. Affiliated Principal Investigator at Emulate, a Harvard/WYSS spinoff. Co-founder of biotechnology spinoff BioNature. He published 165 papers (PubMed, h-index:53).