Human Stem Cell Unit HPI

29/07/2026

Congratulations to Christina Paschou for this achievement!

Congratulations to our PhD student Christina Paschou on winning the ibidi GmbH Paper Award 2026! This work showing how astrocytes carrying p.A53T-α-synuclein can actively drive — and healthy astrocytes can protect against — neurodegeneration is an important contribution to the field. ...

18/10/2024

Multiple representation of our group in the 7th Young Scientists Conference help in Hellenic Pasteur Institute.

16/07/2024

Congrats, Sofia 👏🎉

28/05/2024

26/05/2024

Another exciting and fruitful meeting of the Hellenic Society of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine full of intriguing lectures and presentations in beautiful Thessaloniki comes to an end.
Only this time our team leaves rewarded with the John Stamatoyannopoulos award for all the hard work of the HSCU HPI!

Happy and proud for all collaborative effort!

28/11/2023

Neuroscience Weekend Alert pt. 2!

Science is all about asking questions.
HSCU Staff Scientist, Olympia Apokotou, asked if the previously neglected astrocytes are crucial in Parkinson's disease progression in this year's HSFN meeting!

26/11/2023

Neuroscience Weekend Alert pt.1!
Two incredibly talented members of the HSCU team, PhD Candidate Christina Paschou and Staff Scientist Tasos Kollias, presenting their posters in this year's meeting of the Hellenic Society of Neuroscience held in Athens.

10/03/2023

Unistem Day 2023 was a blast! Great talks, live experiment demonstration and overall a great time!
See you next year!

08/03/2023

The UniStem Day super network is restarting: a series of face-to-face (and online) events, with the aim of promoting a more mature and aware vision of the importance of knowledge and innovation for oneself and for others.

The UniStem Day is a Europe-wide education day for high school students. The event is an opportunity for learning, discovery and discussion on the topics of knowledge and innovation starting from research on stem cells.

UniStem Day 2023: 10 March