Constantin Polychronakos
McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, 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.
Abstract
Abstract : T-cell receptor repertoire of insulin-reactive lymphocytes in type 1 diabetes.