George Kollias is Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor of Physiology at the Medical School, UoA, and Research Professor at the BSRC "Alexander Fleming". His lab provided proof of principle preclinical studies that led to the development of anti-TNF therapies for Rheumatoid arthritis. He has pioneered genetic approaches to study the function of cytokine signaling in animal models of human diseases and contributed knowledge on the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving chronic inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer. More recently, the lab made pioneering contributions to uncovering the pivotal role of fibroblasts in pathophysiology, instigating new therapeutic opportunities for chronic inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. His work has received 49K citations and an h-index of 99 (Source: Google Scholar). His laboratory is supported by several competitive grants from national sources and the European Commission, and has been awarded with two (2014, 2022) Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). GK developed the National Research Infrastructures Infrafrontier.GR/Phenotypos from BSRC Fleming, and the precision Medicine pMedGR from the Medical School of Athens. He also founded Fleming’s spinoff Biomedcode Hellas SA as well as Inolysis, an SME developing therapeutics for fibrosis. He is Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He was elected and served as President and Director of the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming” (2002-2010 & 2016-2020). In 2014, he was awarded the Carol-Nachman Award for Rheumatology. GK is Director of the International Graduate Program in "Molecular Biomedicine" running at the Medical School and BSRC Fleming.