Profile

Title

Professor

Full name

Constantinos Deltas

Affiliation

University of Cyprus

Keywords

Molecular and Medical Genetics, Nephrogenetics, Kindey, Molecular Diagnostics

Publications

Voskarides K, Damianou L, Neocleous V, Zouvani I, Christodoulidou S, Hadjiconstantinou V, Ioannou K, Athanasiou Y, Patsias C, Alexopoulos E, Pierides A, Kyriakou K, Deltas C (2007) COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations producing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and renal failure in thin basement membrane nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 18(11):3004-3016.

Voskarides K, Makariou C, Papagregoriou G, Stergiou N, Printza N, Alexopoulos A, Elia A, Papachristou F, Pierides A, Georgaki E, Deltas C (2008) NPHS2 screening with SURVEYOR in Hellenic children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 23(8):1373-1375.

Koupepidou P, Deltas C, Christofides TC, Athanasiou Y, Zouvani I, Pierides A. (2005). The MTHFR 677TT and 677CT/1298AC genotypes in Cypriot patients may be predisposing to hypertensive nephrosclerosis and chronic renal failure. International Angiology 24(3):287-294.

Stavrou C, Koptides M, Tombazos C, Psara E, Patsias C, Zouvani I, Kyriacou K, Hildebrandt F, Pierides A, Deltas C (2002) Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease Type 1. Clinical and Molecular Findings in Six Large Cypriot Families. Kidney Int 62(4):1385-1394

Koptides M, Mean R, Demetriou K, Pierides A, Deltas C (2000) Genetic Evidence for a Trans-Heterozygous Model for Cystogenesis in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Hum Mol Genet 12:447-452.

Brief Description

Graduated in 1982 from the University of Athens with a degree in Pharmaceutics. Earned a doctorate in Biochemistry, from Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey in the United States, in a joint program with UMDNJ–Rutgers Medical School, in 1988. His thesis was on the biochemistry and molecular biology of connective tissue disorders with emphasis on Osteogenesis Imprerfecta, with Professor Darwin Prockop as his mentor. Between 1988-1990 be worked as Instructor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Research, Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He then spent nine months working as a Visiting Research Associate in the Division of Neurology at Duke University Medical Center, at Durham, North Carolina, USA. In 1991 he returned to his home country, Cyprus, recruited by Dr Lefkos Middleton, first Director of the newly established Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. He created and directed the Department of Molecular Genetics C’ with emphasis on molecular genetics research, developed multiple genetics projects, but mostly engaged in Molecular Nephrology and inherited kidney disorders. He established many molecular diagnostic protocols that are still in use in the same department. In 2002 he was elected Professor of Genetics in the newly created Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Cyprus. He is Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Medical Genetics and elected Chairman of the Department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in human molecular and medical genetics and he continues research in Nephrogenetics while he is developing tools for better understanding of molecular pathomechanisms at cellular and animal level. He is a member of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, a representative of Cyprus to the European Medical Research Council and a Coordinator of the Committee of the Cyprus Council of the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.), on the subject of Biology-Biochemistry.

Contact Information

Phone

00-357-22892882

Fax

00-357-22-892881

Email

Deltas(at)ucy(dot)ac(dot)cy

History

Member for

2 years 6 weeks