Leontios Kostrikis#
| Membership Number: | 6847 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CYPRUS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucy.ac.cy |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5340-7109 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-leondios-kostrikis-07b4401a/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Professor (Full), University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- 2003 - 2011 Associate Professor (tenured), University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- 2001 - 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
- 1999 - 2001 Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University, USA
- 1998 - 2001 Staff Investigator, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA
- 1993 - 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Human genetics in the transmission of HIV-1 and disease progression
- Global molecular epidemiology of HIV1 infection
- Molecular detection of coronaviruses
- Detection of the SARS coronavirus and other SARS-associated coronaviruses
- Global transmission drug resistance
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Honorary Award, 75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, Embassy of the United States of America, Cyprus
- 2021 Honorary Member, Biological Society of Cyprus, Cyprus
- 2020 Distinguished Fellow 2021, International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), Hong Kong and USA
- 2020 Distinguished Researcher 2020 Award (Life Sciences), Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), Cyprus
- 2020 Member, European Academies Science Advisory Council’s (EASAC) Biosciences Steering Panel, EU
- 2019 Founding Member (Biological Sciences), Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Cyprus
- 2017 Stelios Philanthropic Foundation Award in Science, Monaco
- 2005 Marie Curie Fellow, European Commission
- 2005 Honorary Distinction, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, USA
- 2003 Patti Cadby Birch Trust Fellow, USA
- 2001 Athanasios Mantekos Award, Academy of Athens, Greece
- 1994 Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow, USA
- 1996 Gregorian AIDS Foundation Honorary Award, Cyprus
