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Fotis Kafatos (Φώτης Κωνσταντίνος Καφάτος Fotis Constantine Kafatos) was born on 16 April, 1940 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, is a Greek biologist (1940–2017). Discover Fotis Kafatos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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Φώτης Κωνσταντίνος Καφάτος Fotis Constantine Kafatos |
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77 years old |
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Aries |
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16 April 1940 |
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16 April |
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Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
| Date of death |
18 November, 2017 |
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Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
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Greece
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Fotis Kafatos Height, Weight & Measurements
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Fotis Kafatos Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Fotis Kafatos worth at the age of 77 years old? Fotis Kafatos’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Greece. We have estimated Fotis Kafatos's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Fotis Constantine Kafatos (Φώτης Κ. Καφάτος; 16 April 1940 – 18 November 2017) was a Greek biologist.
Fotis Kafatos graduated from the Lyceum Korais in Heraklion in 1958 and from Cornell University in 1961, where he was mentored by Thomas Eisner and assisted by the Fulbright Program and a scholarship from Anne Gruner Schlumberger.
He earned his PhD at Harvard in 1965 for research on entomology, supervised by Carroll Williams.
Fotis Kafatos was an influential Greek biologist, having had a pivotal role in triggering the interest of the Greek government for Science, with the establishment of the Faculty of Biology in the University of Athens, the Faculty of Biology in the University of Crete and the IMBB in Heraklion.
At the beginning of his career, he contributed to the development of the complementary DNA (cDNA) cloning technology and worked on the mechanisms of cellular differentiation leading to the formation of the eggs in insects.
He has particular interest in malaria research and used his knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of insects to understand how the insect vector copes with the Plasmodium parasite.
He married Sarah Niles in 1967 and they had two daughters, Helen and Zoe Myrto, and four grandchildren.
Kafatos was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 1982 and of the American Academy.
He was Assistant Professor and later Professor and Chairman of the department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Harvard University, Professor of Biology at the University of Athens and at the University of Crete, director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas in Heraklion and third Director-General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory from 1993 to 2005.
He also participated in the sequencing of the genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae completed in 2002.
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2003 and was also a member of the French Académie des Sciences, the Pontifical Academy and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
From 2005 till his death, he had been a professor at Imperial College in London.
He chaired the ERC Scientific Council from 2006-2010.
Thereafter, he was appointed Honorary President of the ERC.
Between 2007-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council (ERC).
In 2007, he was appointed as the first President of the European Research Council.
He was awarded the Louis-Jeantet 25th anniversary prize in 2008, the Robert Koch Medal in Gold in 2010, the BioMalPar.EviPalaR Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Leibnitz Medal in 2011.
He was also a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the Greek Order of the Phoenix, as well as other awards and honorary degrees in Greece and elsewhere.
Fotis Kafatos was the son of Constantine and Helen Kafatos, had two brothers named Antonis and Menas, and lived until age 18 with his family in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
