Glycosaminoglycans: from "cellular glue" to novel therapeutical agents.

Nikos Karamanos is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Patras. He has carried out predoctoral and postdoctoral research at Karolinska Institute (School of Medicine, Sweden). Currently he is on the editorial boards of several journals among them the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Current Medicinal Chemistry, and serves as Academic Editor of Plos One. His research is focused on biological matrix effectors (proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, metalloproteinases and glycoproteins) and involves matrix pathobiology, cell signaling and gene expression, pharmacological targeting, drug preclinical evaluation, mimetic cellular paracrine models and development of bioanalytical assays.