Famous Cypriot Scientists: Marios Kyriazis, Panayiotis Zavos, Christopher Pissarides, Andreas Demetriou

1. Famous Cypriot Scientists By Alexandra, Anas, Anna, Antriana, Ivy, Katerina, Leo, Vlad

2. Marios Kyriazis • Marios Kyriazis is a medical doctor and gerontologist who helped launch the concept of anti-aging medicine worldwide. • He has also contributed to the topic of human biological immortality and to the movement aiming to abolish death by ageing.  • Kyriazis founded the “ELPIS Foundation for Indefinite Lifespans”, a scientific research organisation studying biomedical and non biomedical ways to eliminate ageing. • Man of the Year (Scientist) 2017 • First Cypriot candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine

3. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY • Born on 11 March 1956 in Larnaca • Studiedmedicinein University of Perugia and then the University of Rome in Italy • Trained as a junior doctor in Cyprus, New York and England MEDICAL CAREER • In 1992 Kyriazis founded the ”British Longevity Society”, an organization aiming to provide information on healthy ageing to the general public. • (He wrote on the subject of free radicals and antioxidants)

4. Anti-ageingmedicine& LIFE EXTENSION • He defines anti-ageing medicine as: "a branch of medical science, with the ultimate goal of extending the healthy lifespan of humans.“ • Kyriazis wrote several books, including The Anti-Aging Plan , The Age Defying Cookbook , The Look Young Bible, and Anti-Aging Medicines • He introduced the  carnosine as an antiaging supplement to the public. His two books on this subject were Carnosine and other Elixirs of Youth and The Cataract Cure. • Quote: “My aim it is to eliminate ageing, particularly the elimination of human suffering, misery and death that ageing brings. When this is done, I will feel satisfied.”

5. Panayiotis Michael Zavos (Παναγιώτης Ζαβός) Cypriot biologist, Chief Scientist in the development of several new and innovative technologies in the human reproductive areas.

6. Professor Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Fertility Technologies International. Professor Dr. Zavos is the Chief Scientist in the development of several new and innovative technologies in the human reproductive areas with worldwide implications. Professor Dr. Zavos has an incredible and long career as a reproductive specialist and he has devoted more than 30 years to academia He and his supporters of cloning feel that with the careful continuation of research, the technological benefits of cloning cleary outweigh the possible social consequences. In their minds, final products of cloning, like farm animals and laboratory mice will not be the most important achievement. Academics: Panayiotis received his B.S. in Biology-Chemistry in 1970 M.S. in Biology-Physiology in 1972 Education Specialist in Science (E.Ds..) in 1976 from Emporia State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology, Biochemistry and Statistics in 1978 from the University of Minnesota. Career

7. Dr.Zavos & Cloning He has long experience with IVF and other types of assisted pregnancy. his goal is to help infertile couples who can’t have babies naturally. 01 Zavos presented the first evidence of the creation and transfer of a human cloned embryo for reproductive purposes. Even though no pregnancy was established, human reproduction via SCNT is possible and applicable in the future for patients with severe male or female infertility that have no other alternative options for procreating their own offspring. 02 03 President and CEO of Fertility Technologies International, Inc.founded in 2012. These companies serve for the people having fertility problems. Its main areas are gender selection, semen shipping, semen evaluation, home semen analysis, and others.

8. Christopher A. Pissarides Nobel Prize Winner

9. Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is a British-Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economic & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel prize in Economics jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Montensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions.

10. Andreas Demetriou (Greek: Ανδρέας Δημητρίου) He received a PhD in psychology in 1983. He was a professor of Developmental Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until 1996. He then moved to the University of Cyprus, where he was a professor of psychology until he became the Minister of Education and Culture. Currently he is professor of psychology and President of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation. He is also President of the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.

11. His research focuses on cognitive development. From the very beginning he attempted to develop a comprehensive theory of cognitive development aiming to integrate the empirically valid aspects of Piaget's theory with psychometric and cognitive theory. That is, the theory aimed to describe and explain intellectual development through the life span, individual differences in the rate and directions of intellectual development, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying development and individual differences. According to this theory, the human mind is organised in three functional levels. The first is the level of processing potentials, which involves information processing mechanisms underlying the ability to attend to, select, represent, and operate on information. The other two levels involve knowing processes, one oriented to the environment and another oriented to the self. The level oriented to the environment includes thought processes and functions that specialise in the representation and processing of information coming from different domains of the environment.

12. Costas n. papanicolas • Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas is a Nuclear and Particle Physicist with over 35 years of experience as a researcher, an educator and a scientific administrator. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and PhD in Nuclear Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. His research interests lie on the fields of Hadronic Physics, and in Solar Energy and Energy Policy.

13. Papanicolas has held positions at the French Atomic Energy Commision (Saclay, France) and has served as Professor of Physics at theUniversity of Ilinois (Urbana-Champaign, USA), and at the University of Athens (Greece). He has also served as the Founding Director of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA) in Greece. Since 2008 he holds the positions of President of The Cyprus Institute (CyI) and of CEO of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF).