Dimitrios Anastasakis is an Assistant Professor of Medical Chemistry in the Department of Basic Sciences at the School of Medicine, University of Crete. His research spans a broad spectrum—from fundamental biochemistry and tool development to translational medicine—with a central focus on RNA–protein interactions and their role in gene regulation. His lab investigates how the misregulation of these interactions contributes to disease, while also developing innovative methodologies to study RNA function in complex biological systems.
Dr. Anastasakis received his BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Thessaly. He held a postgraduate research appointment at Yale University’s School of Medicine, where he worked on FSH receptor signaling. He went on to complete his MSc and PhD at the University of Patras, before joining the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his postdoctoral training in the RNA Molecular Biology Laboratory at NIAMS, where he studied mechanisms of RNA regulation. His work has been published in leading journals including Cell, Molecular Cell, and Nucleic Acids Research, and he is the recipient of an EMBO Installation Grant.