Nicholas K. Moschonas is Professor Emeritus of Medical Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Essex-AOU, and Corresponding Researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT. He served as a Professor of Biology at the University of Crete, headed the Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, and held a joint appointment at IMBB-FORTH. He was trained in Biology and Evolutionary/Developmental Biology at the Universities of Patras, Athens, and Harvard, and specialized in Medical Molecular Genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research, MRC-UK. Since 1983, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Medical Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Cell Biology. He also serves as an invited lecturer at several Greek universities. His research focuses on Medical Molecular Genetics and Functional Genomics, with emphasis on the molecular architecture of genetic disorders, and on protein interaction networks and diseasomes. His team participated continuously, from 1990 to 2004, in the International Human Genome Project. He has supervised postgraduate and doctoral theses, coordinated international and national research programs, and published extensive scientific work in high-impact international journals. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Genes and the HUGO’s Human Genomics journals.  He is the scientific editor of the Greek editions of ten renowned university textbooks and ten scientific and popular science books. Among many academic positions he served as the National Delegate of Greece and Member of the EU Program Committee “Cooperation–Health”/FP7. He is a member of the National Commission on Bioethics and Technoethics.