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George Kassiotis is a Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, specializing in Retroviral Immunology. He is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. Kassiotis holds a PhD in Immunology from the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens, Greece, where his doctoral studies focused on transgenic mouse models of human neuroimmunological diseases. He has conducted postdoctoral research at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in London, exploring T cell homeostasis and immunological memory. His laboratory's current research primarily investigates the innate and adaptive immune responses to endogenous and exogenous retroviruses. George has been recognized as a New Investigator Award recipient from the Wellcome Trust in the UK.
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