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Women in science. An interview

In honor of the international day of women and girls in science, we interviewed one of our very own, Dr. Evelina Papaioannou.

Dr. Evelina Papaioannou joined Medicover Genetics in 2019 as an Intellectual Property Officer and is part of the Research & Development Department at Medicover Genetics, where she is responsible for managing the intellectual property portfolio of the company. This includes drafting and filing patent and trademark applications, replying to objections raised by patent examiners, and identifying opportunities for new patent applications. 

Dr. Evelina Papaioannou received her B.Sc. in Molecular Cellular Biology at the University of Southampton and her M.Sc. in Molecular Medical Microbiology at the University of Nottingham. Winning the prestigious Marie-Curie fellowship, she went on to pursue a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she also worked as a postdoctoral researcher for several years.

Dr. Papaioannou has written several scientific publications, and has won a scholarship and several other awards during her education and work experience.

She has extensive work experience as a Medical Writer, a GDPR Consultant and an Intellectual Property Officer.

The questions covered in this interview are:

  • How did you decide to go into science?
  • How did you decide on the specific field of science?
  • Which aspect of your field do you find the most interesting and which the most challenging?
  • How is your work connected to the work of others?
  • What tools/qualities do you find indispensable for your field?
  • What surprising lessons have you learned along the way that changed the way you used to think?
  • What is the best advice you ever received that would help a young scientist who is starting now?
  • What do you think are the biggest challenges for young scientists in Cyprus? What are the best ways to overcome these?
  • What has changed the most since you became a scientist and how different do you think the scientific world would be in 10 years?
  • Which scientific discovery are you most fascinated by and why?

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