Clinical and Medical Genetics

Biography

Marina Kleanthous (PhD 1990 Neurochemistry, University of Athens) has been at the Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department at the CING since 1991, and Head of the Department since 1997. Prior to that, she had carried out research in the Fishery Department of National Center for Marine Research (NCMR) and the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Research Centre of Crete. She has extensive experience in the diagnosis of different forms of thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies and other rare hereditary disorders, prenatal diagnosis for thalassaemia and other diseases and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for thalassaemia. She has been involved in more than 14 research projects (totaling over €18.5 million) in the last 11 years and has been the coordinator of at least 10 of those.

Research Interest

Her research interests include: Drug therapy for thalassaemia using HbF inducers, gene therapy for thalassaemia, the development of a diagnostic chip for thalassaemia, non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) for thalassaemia, as well as genotype /phenotype correlation studies in thalassaemia. She has published over 25 refereed papers and contributed to chapters for 3 books. She has given more than 30 lectures in conferences in Cyprus and abroad and has organized more than 10 conferences and workshops.