STEM Cells: Healing Future Hope

DEMOKRITOS Researcher’s Night
The purpose of the Researchers’ Night is to convey to the general public the key ideas that Research is a necessary ingredient for progress, the Researchers are an integral part of the community and their profession is both fun, challenging, interesting and worth pursuing. The presentation of the work of the scientists to the Greek public will showcase the need of scientific and technological breakthroughs and opportunities that benefit society in many ways.!
Activities during the main event will be conducted indoor and outdoor including hands-on experiments, demos, simulations (in silico demonstrations), show and tell stands, experiment demonstrations, science shows, guided tours and visits to the labs, display of films, music performances by researchers, exhibitions (scientific and artistic), demonstrations on applications coming from science research, using art to convey science and showing the other side of researchers...!

Researcher’s Night Demokritos Greece

Reporting in the journal Nature, researchers say they have created a functional liver using induced pluripotent stem cells. The team of scientists first created “liver buds” and transplanted those into mice, where the buds grew into tissue resembling the adult liver. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, who was not affiliated with the work, describes what was done and whether whole, functioning, transplantable organs might be created in this way.

Building a Liver from Stem Cells

Professor Sir John Gurdon is Distinguished Group Leader in the Wellcome Trust/CRUK Gurdon Institute in Cambridge. His awards include the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.

Cloning stem cells: a modern medicine revolution

Christos Riziotis, Associate Researcher of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) discusses about his research project on photonic sensors and offers his advice to students who want to pursue science as a career path. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.


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TTC #80 The Science of Photonics

The main problem in the field of neutrino astronomy is the unambiguous detection and reconstruction of the neutrino induced signal. The KM3NeT collaboration with participants from Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Ireland, and Romania have been designing a deep-sea neutrino telescope to be built in the Mediterranean. Dr. Christos Markou, Director of Research at NCSR Demokritos, is talking about their research on multi-messenger neutrino astronomy and what they expect to find out in the next years. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #79 Research and progress on deep-sea neutrino telescope

Dr. Garyfallia Drossopoulou explains in simple terms what neural stem cell development from the human olfactory mucosa(in the nose) means for patients with spine injuries and other related health problems. She dwells into the purpose of cultivating such cells in order to get concentrated populations but also capable of multiplying & self-renewing. She explains the ‘olfactory’ term and the solution it entails to finding the right tissue without ethical boundaries. Ending, she gives us her own insights on whether young students should follow her footsteps in medical research and what they should expect from the science. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.


TTC #78 Neural Stem Cells from Olfactory Ensheathing Cells

In this interview, Maria Sachpazi, Research Director & Acting Director of the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens, chats with Tina about the European Researcher's Night, what inspired her to pursue science and research, and whether seismologists today have the ability to predict the next "big" earthquake. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #77 Can Geodynamic Research Help Predict Earthquakes?

Dr. George Kordas, Research Director at NCSR Demokritos, describes the very important project his research team is working on, during the last six years: delivering drugs for personalized chemotherapy to cancer patients. He talks about what inspired him to make this project the scope of his life, as well as the prospects of his life-saving method for the future. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #76 Drug delivery system for personalized chemotherapy

Stem cells help healing paralyzed rats

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