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Dr. Marina Kleanthous

Head, Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department

E-mail:
marinal@cing.ac.cy
Phone:
00357 22 392652
Fax:
00357 22 392615
Center:
Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
Adress:
6 Internation Aiport Ave 1683 Nicosia • Cyprus

Marina Kleanthous holds a B.Sc. degree in Biology (1981) from the University of Thessaloniki and a PhD degree in Neurochemistry (1989) from the University of Athens. She specialized in Molecular Biology at the IMBB of Crete, the Medical Collage of Georgia, GA, USA and the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington, WA, USA. She is currently director of the Molecular Biology and Thalassaemia Department at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. She has extensive experience in the diagnosis of different forms of thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies and other rare hereditary disorders, prenatal diagnosis and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for thalassaemia and other diseases. Her research interests involve the identification of new HbF inducing agents for thalassaemia treatment, gene therapy for thalassaemia and the development of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) for thalassaemia.

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