Maria Gazouli, Biologist, is Professor of Biology-Genetics–Nanomedicine at the Department of Biology at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), School of Medicine. She performed her 1st PhD training at the Department of Biology, School of Science of NKUA in partnership with the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, her 2nd PhD training at the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine of NKUA, and her postdoctoral work in the United States at Cell Biology and Pharmacology Department, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC. From 2000 to 2001 Dr Gazouli was Researcher Fellow at NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Biology and from 2001-2003 was Researcher Fellow at Department of Histology–Embryology, School of Medicine, NKUA. From 2004-2006, Dr. Gazouli was Technical Scientific Staff at the Laboratory of Biology, School of Medicine, NKUA. In 2007 she joined the NKUA Medical School as Lecturer of Biology, in 2012 she was promoted to Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and in 2016 she promoted to Associate Professor of Molecular Biology. In 2020 she promoted to Professor of Biology–Nanomedicine. Dr. Gazouli work refers mainly to molecular basis of diseases mainly autoimmune diseases and cancer, to molecular detection of pathogens and the investigation of the pathogenesis of the diseases they cause to humans. Recently Dr. Gazouli was involved in the incorporation of nanotechnology to targeted cancer detection, imaging and drug delivery. She honored with Fulbright Scholarship for the Development of Nanotechnology-based Biosensor Arrays for the Detection of Circulating Colorectal Cancer Cells at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States. Dr. Gazouli work is reflected in > 240 publications that have received > 14000 citations and h-index = 62 (Google scholar, 1/1/2023). She owns 1 granted International Patent and 3 European Patents. She has given more than 50 invited lectures at international/national conferences, and universities and has trained several junior scientists. She has served as ad hoc reviewer for various scientific journals (e.g. Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Oncology, Molecular Medicine, ΒΜC Cancer, Gene, Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, Scientific Reports, Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy, International Journal of Nanomedicine etc.) and as an expert evaluator for the National Research Grant Funding Agencies of Greece, Broad Medical Research Program Inflammatory Bowel Disease Grants, the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Krakow, the PISCOPIA Fellowship Programme on behalf of the University of Padova, Italy, the Czech-Norwegian Research Programme, the Qatar National Research Fund, the Danish Council for Independent Research for DFF–YDUN Research Project, the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), University and Research and the Evaluation of research products. She been the scientific coordinator of 2 European Commission-funded collaborative research programmes, 1 European Joint Action on Rare Cancers involving more than 20 research teams across Europe. Dr Gazouli teaches Biology and Genetics to undergraduate medical students and shas contributed to the translation of biology textbook in Greek. He also teaches various aspects of Molecular Biology in master programmes of NKUA, University of Thessaly, and Democritus University of Thrace. She is coordinator of National and International Research grants (i.e. Joint Actions, Horizon 2020 etc.). Currently she is National Representative at the Committee of Advanced Therapies of the European Medicine Association.