Dr Papaspyropoulos is Assistant Professor of Histology-Embryology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. Dr Papaspyropoulos graduated with distinction from the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010, where he specialised in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology. He was subsequently admitted to the University of Oxford, UK under a competitive 4-year full Medical Research Council (MRC) studentship, where he successfully completed his DPhil thesis at the Department of Oncology (2010-2014). During his doctoral studies, he investigated the role of Hippo and Wnt key signalling pathways in tumourigenesis and stem cell biology. Between 2014-2015, Dr Papaspyropoulos worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, having received an MRC DTP Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Between 2015-2018, Dr Papaspyropoulos moved to the Netherlands where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht University. His research was focused on the establishment and implementation of organoids as a personalised medicine platform against human disease, particularly lung and colorectal cancer. Between 2019-2023, Dr Papaspyropoulos was a senior research associate (recipient of an IKY fellowship) at the Department of Biochemistry, School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019-2020), and later (2020-2023) at the Department of Histology-Embryology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. Dr Papaspyropoulos’ current research activity revolves around tumourigenesis, stem cells and cancer stem cells, as well as development and implementation of patient-derived organoids (PDOs) as precision medicine platforms.