Laboratory Teaching Staff

Education

• Degree in Pharmacy (1998), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Pharmacy
• MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (2000): National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 
• PhD in Pharmacy (2005): National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 

Teaching

Undergraduate courses:

• Introduction to Laboratory Practices
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Lab Works) 
• Drug Design
• Introduction to Computers

Undergraduate courses:

• Advanced Pharmaceutical Chemistry I
• Good Research Practice
• Computational Chemometrics

Research topics

• Rational Drug design
• Computational Chemistry 
• Structural Pharmacology 
• Transmembrane Proteins as Pharmaceutical Targets 
• Systems Pharmacology
• Bioinformatics- Pharmacometris 

Recent publications

• Alguel, Yilmaz, Sotiris Amillis, James Leung, George Lambrinidis, Stefano Capaldi, Nicola J. Scull, Gregory Craven, et al. “Structure of Eukaryotic Purine/H+ Symporter UapA Suggests a Role for Homodimerization in Transport Activity.” Nature Communications 7, no. 1 (September 2016): 11336. doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11336.
• Lagarias, Panagiotis, Eleni Vrontaki, George Lambrinidis, Dimitrios Stamatis, Marino Convertino, Gabriella Ortore, Thomas Mavromoustakos, Karl-Norbert Klotz, and Antonios Kolocouris. “Discovery of Novel Adenosine Receptor Antagonists through a Combined Structure- and Ligand-Based Approach Followed by Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Ligand Binding Mode.” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 58, no. 4 (April 23, 2018): 794–815. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00455.
• Lambrinidis, George, and Anna Tsantili-Kakoulidou. “Challenges with Multi-Objective QSAR in Drug Discovery.” Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 13, no. 9 (September 2, 2018): 851–59. doi.org/10.1080/17460441.2018.1496079.
• Gkouletsos, T., K. Patas, G. Lambrinidis, H. Neubauer, L.D. Sprague, A. Ioannidis, and S. Chatzipanagiotou. “Antimicrobial Resistance of Yersinia Enterocolitica and Presence of Plasmid PYV Virulence Genes in Human and Animal Isolates.” New Microbes and New Infections 32 (November 2019): 100604. doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100604.
• Kourkoulou, Anezia, Pothos Grevias, George Lambrinidis, Euan Pyle, Mariangela Dionysopoulou, Argyris Politis, Emmanuel Mikros, Bernadette Byrne, and George Diallinas. “Specific Residues in a Purine Transporter Are Critical for Dimerization, ER-Exit and Function.” Genetics, October 14, 2019, genetics.302566.2019. doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302566.

Contact

Postal address: Section of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Panepistimiopolis, 157 71
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30(210) 7274304
Fax: +30(210) 7274747
e-mail: lamprinidis@pharm.uoa.gr