Dr Konstantinos Faropoulos MD, PhD, (male) is a Special Scientist at the University of Cyprus Medical School ands a neurosurgeon with particular interest in intracranial oncology. Moreover, he has laboratory experience in protein level measurement using western blot technic, while his PhD thesis was the evaluation of oxidative stress in distal organs after bile duct ligation and the association of brain oxidative stress with the disruption of blood-brain barrier. His running research project concerns the correlations of intracranial tumor induced cerebral oedema with the expression of aquaporins. Some of his resent publications about intracranial lesions concern intravertricular cavernomas, while he was co-author of the poster “Correlation of p-P44/42 MAPK, p-P38 MAPK and PHOSPHO-SAPK/JNK expression and survival in patients with cerebral glioblastoma” which was presented in the 25th Hellenic Congress of Neurosurgery.
