Dr. Dimitris G. Placantonakis joins Advantis Medical Imaging Scientific Advisory Board
Advantis Medical Imaging, a pioneering manufacturer of cloud-based medical imaging software solutions, is pleased to announce that Dr. Dimitris Placantonakis - MD, PhD, Neurosurgeon, will be joining its scientific advisory board.
Advantis Medical Imaging CEO, Paris Ziogkas, commented, “We are both excited and enormously honoured to have Dr. Placantonakis on our scientific advisory board. Dimitris is a prolific scientist and clinician with a strong expertise on functional brain mapping and tractography. It’s also a huge vote of confidence for our company for a healthcare professional of such calibre to be joining our team”.
Dr. Placantonakis added, “I am interested in platforms that automate MRI tractography, an MRI tool that allows neurosurgeons to identify important fiber tracts in their presurgical planning. Indeed, Advantis’ brain MRI solution provides excellent fiber tracking. I look forward to helping improve the Advantis algorithms and working with the incredible team of young scientists and physicians at Advantis.”
About Dr. D. Placantonakis
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Dimitris Placantonakis is a neurosurgeon-scientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He obtained his MD/PhD degrees at NYU School of Medicine. He then completed neurosurgery training at Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He specializes in surgical resection of brain tumors, utilizing minimally invasive approaches and functional brain mapping. His laboratory uses human pluripotent stem cell platforms to model initiation of glioma, as well as patient-derived glioblastoma cultures to understand fundamental mechanisms of tumor progression and to uncover novel vulnerabilities. In addition, his group has been particularly interested in mechanisms responsible for dynamic reprogramming of 3D chromatin architecture in both human neural development and gliomagenesis.
About Advantis Medical Imaging
Advantis Medical Imaging was founded in 2016 and has offices in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Athens, Greece. The company is on a mission to make medical image analysis more quantitative, accessible and automated through AI and cloud technology. Advantis’ activity and growth revolve around its central value which governs its every action: To continuously strive for progress and invent new and innovative products which make a real impact for its customers and their patients.
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