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Δευτέρα, 18 Μαΐου, 2020 Dear friends, We hope you and your family are well and out of harm's way. One of the issues of critical importance for restarting the economy, education, tourism and our lives in general is Covid-19 antibody detection. This will be the exact topic of the Hellenic Innovation Network's second webcast which will go live tomorrow, Monday May 18th, at 12:00pm EST. We invite you to watch here. Covid-19 Antibody Detection Date and Time: May 18, 2020 09:00 - 09:30 am (San Francisco)      9:00 με 9:30 το πρωί ώρα Καλιφόρνιας 12:00 - 12:30 pm (Boston/New York)  12:00 με 12:30 το μεσημέρι Ανατολική ΗΠΑ 07:00 - 07:30 pm (Athens/Nicosia)  7:00 με 7:30 το βράδυ ώρα Ελλάδος και Κύπρου Speaker: Leonidas Alexopoulos Leonidas Alexopoulos is an associate professor at the National Technical University of Athens, director of the Systems Bioengineering Group, and a biotech entrepreneur. He studied at Duke, MIT, and Harvard Medical School. His research combines mathematical modeling of biological systems with novel experimental technologies for early drug and biomarker discovery and has received several awards. He co-founded Protavio, a successful biomarker discovery-to-production biotech startup that operates with a lean startup model and brings a novel multiplexing technology to pharmaceutical and tobacco industries. He is a member of Hellenic Biocluster and MIT EF Greece and his vision is to empower translational research from academia to entrepreneurship. Moderator: George Petrocheilos George Petrocheilos is a Managing Partner at Nexus Management which he co-founded in 2016. He makes investments in early-stage biomedical technology companies founded by world-renowned scientist-entrepreneurs. He currently serves on the Boards of Spiral Therapeutics, MindX, Sisu Global Health, Inc., Ashvattha Therapeutics, and WindMIL Therapeutics and his family-owned PETKA S.A., a construction & development company headquartered in Athens, Greece. George is on the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Johns Hopkins Center for Financial Economics. He also serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of the Halcyon Incubator in Washington D.C. and the MIT Enterprise Forum Greece. George’s honors include Baltimore Business Journal’s 2019 ‘Tech 10’ leaders in Maryland, BBJ’s 2013 “40 Under 40 Business Leaders” and The Hill’s 2013 “Washington D.C. Rising Stars”, among others. George earned a B.A. degree in Financial Economics from the Johns Hopkins University. The Hellenic Innovation Network, with the support of the Greek Consulate of Boston and MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, hosts events to educate those in the US about technology innovation and entrepreneurship in Greece, and to offer Greek entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch and network in the US. While events are typically held in Boston, due to the covid-19 situation we are hosting a series of 30-minute webcasts, in order to keep our community connected until our next in-person event in the Fall. If you didn't get the chance to watch the first webcast in the series, on the topic of Research and Innovation in Greece (Speaker: Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Moderator: Aristos Doxiadis), you can catch up here. We look forward to having you join us. Stay safe!

Kind regards, Stratos Efthymiou Consul General of Greece in Boston