Constantin Polychronakos
M.D., F.R.C.P.C.
Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Human Genetics Leader, Child Health and Human Development Programme McGill University Health Centre Research Institute Editor
Canada
Biography
After medical studies at Aristotelian University in Greece, Constantin Polychronakos specialized in pediatric endocrinology in Canada and had post-doctoral research training at McGill University in Montreal, where he is now full professor in the Department of Paediatrics with cross-appointment in Human Genetics. He is credited with the discovery of the effect of the INS locus in the thymus in type 1 diabetes, with two of the first GWAS for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and one of the first uses of exon capture combined with NGS to elucidate the cause of a rare monogenic form of diabetes
Research Interest
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