Panagiotis Karanis's Biography

Panagiotis Karanis, Professor and Director, Qinghai University

Panagiotis Karanis has obtained his PhD in Parasitology from Bonn University following Post-doctoral research activities in Germany, Greece, Australia, Japan, Canada, Thailand and China. He has been working in the field of medical, epidemiological and molecular parasitology taken into account both the pathogen and the disease. His worldwide research activities focused in the control of water-borne and vector-borne parasitic diseases including the development of diagnostic assays useful for basic and clinical platforms in the field of biomedicine. He was the main speaker of the Nobel-Days-Lecture during the Nobel-Days-Festivities at the Orebro University in Sweden in December 10th, 2012, focused on malaria vaccine development.