Background
Spandidos, Demetrios was born on May 13, 1947 in Agios Constantinos, Sparta, Greece.
Spandidos, Demetrios was born on May 13, 1947 in Agios Constantinos, Sparta, Greece.
Spandidos received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Thessaloniki in 1971, his Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University in 1976, and a Doctor of Science from the University of Glasgow in 1989.
He has been professor of virology at the University of Crete since 1989. From 1976 to 1978, Spandidos worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, working in the laboratory of Louis Siminovitch. In 1978, Spandidos gave a presentation to a Dana Farber Cancer Institute seminar.
In this presentation, Spandidos claimed to have proven that oncogenes were the root cause of all cancers.
Robert Weinberg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was in the audience when Spandidos gave this talk, and later recalled that he had devised what he called "exactly the same" strategy to identify oncogenes in human tumors not long before Spandidos" talk. Spandidos had published these findings in Cell a month prior to Weinberg having his idea, which, like Spandidos" paper, related to transfectable oncogenes.
Spandidos was forced to end his position at the University of Toronto in Siminovitch"s laboratory due to accusations of fraud. Two postdocs in Siminovitch lab were unable to reproduce Spandidos" findings, and Spandidos did not present the raw data proving that he was innocent.
Unfortunately, Siminovitch did not initiate an independent investigation and the accusations have never been officially confirmed.
From 1978 to 1979 Spandidos was an assistant professor at the Hellenic Anticancer Institute in Athens, Greece. From 1979 to 1989, Spandidos worked at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, where he studied the ras oncogene. In 1992, Spandidos established Spandidos Publications, a publisher of scientific journals.
lieutenant currently publishes eight journals: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, International Journal of Oncology, Molecular Medicine Reports, Oncology Reports, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, Oncology Letters, Biomedical Reports, and Molecular and Clinical Oncology.
None of the journals are registered in the Committee on Publication Ethics (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Fellow Royal Society Health (London). Member Royal College Pathologists (United Kingdom), International Association Breast Cancer Research (board governors since 1991, nomination committee since 1991), Hellenic Society Breast (honorary), Hellenic Society Lung Cancer (honorary).
Son of Anastasios and Athanasia (Tourna) S. M. Panayota D. Kpempeniou, September 4, 1976. Children: Athanasia, Nikiforos-Anastasios.