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News > Research Highlights
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Research at IMBB identifies a new disorder

Jan 28, 2013
Craniosynistosis is a bone condition that can inhibit brain growth in children and affects 1 in 2200 births. Work published in the premier scientific journal Nature Genetics, identifies ERF haploinsufficiency as the genetic cause of a syndromic form of craniosynostosis, the ERF-associated craniosynostosisIMBB researcher receives the Empeirikeion Foundation Academic Excellence Prize

Dec 21, 2012
Nektarios Tavernarakis, a Research Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of FORTH-Hellas, and a Professor-elect at the Medical School of the University of Crete was awarded today the Grant Academic Excellence Prize of the Empeirikeion FoundationNew optical fibre technology for thermally ultra-durable optical fibre sensors

Dec 13, 2012
For a second, consecutive, year research results from the Photonic Materials and Devices Laboratory of FORTH-IESL headed by Dr Stavros Pissadakis, is highlighted in the December issue of Optics & Photonics News. This annual technology review is published under the auspices of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and lists the most exciting and significant research findings that characterized the passing year in Optics and Photonics. Researchers of the Institute of Computer Science - FORTH received the First Award in software contest organized in Japan

Nov 27, 2012
Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) received the First Award in the Gesture Recognition Challenge contest with their work titled Giving a hand to Kinect