Constantin Polychronakos
McGill University, Canada
Biography
Constantin Polychronakos specialized in Pediatric Endocrinology in Canada after medical studies at Aristotelian University in Greece, and fi nished his 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 fi rst GWAS for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and one of the fi rst uses of exon capture combined with NGS to elucidate the cause of a rare monogenic form of diabetes
Abstract
Abstract : T-cell receptor repertoire of insulin-reactive lymphocytes in type 1 diabetes.