Dimitrios Mavroudis is Professor of Medical Oncology in the Medical School of the University of Crete and head of the Department of Medical Oncology in the University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is also the director of the Laboratory of Translational Oncology at the Medical School.
His main clinical interest is in breast cancer and his research focuses in the development of liquid biopsy as a tool of studying and understanding the biology of disease and predicting clinical outcome. This includes the analysis of circulating tumor cells and cell free DNA in the blood of cancer patients.
He has authored and co-authored more than 350 scientific papers published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He has served as the representative of Greek medical oncologists at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). He has also served as a member of the initial steering committee for the organization of the National Institute of Cancer, and of the National Ethics Committee in Greece.
Education
Research Interests
- breast cancer (prognostic and predictive factors, detection, monitoring and characterisation of micrometastatic disease, novel therapies)
- liquid biopsy (circulating tumor cells, cell-free DNA)
- precision medicine in oncology (biomarkers, individualised oncology)
Publications
Memberships
Εταιρεία Παθολόγων Ογκολόγων Ελλάδος (ΕΟΠΕ)
European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
