TASSOULA EPTAKILI

Like a lemon tree in the frost

He’s scheduled to get his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday and is counting down the days like a kid waiting for a school trip.

Greek startups riding out the pandemic

Blueground – a firm that arranges long-term leases for furnished apartments in Europe, the United States and Asia – started in 2020 with the assurance of tens of millions of dollars in funding and was poised to expand to even more markets, aiming to manage 50,000 properties in 50 cities worldwide in the next few years.

07.12.2020 / 15:03

Anti-Covid vaccines will be effective for long time, experts tell Kathimerini

Coronavirus vaccines will drastically change our lives for the better, but not overnight, and will provide protection for a long time, according to the consensus among nine Greek scientists working abroad and contacted by Kathimerini.

09.10.2020 / 22:33

The Greek behind Trump’s antibody cocktail

Following the announcement that Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ experimental monoclonal antibody cocktail was used to treat US President Donald Trump, the president and chief scientific officer of the American biotechnology company, Dr George Yancopoulos, found himself at the center of international attention.

28.09.2020 / 20:52

David Wallace-Wells: ‘It is worse, much worse, than you think’

US journalist David Wallace-Wells, whose work has appeared in New York magazine and the Guardian, is best known for his work on climate change, and his first book, New York Times bestseller “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming,” which is inspired by a 2017 article in New York magazine and was published last year, is a loud wake-up call.

11.09.2020 / 14:31

Nothing is certain until a vaccine is developed, says Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas

There’s so much to talk about with Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, not least of which is her career path from the child of citrus farmers in the northern Peloponnesian town of Argos to head of infectious diseases at the University Hospital of Cambridge in the UK.

29.06.2020 / 16:26

Distinguished biomedical experts backing Greek horse

Professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School and chair at the College de France Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas not only has knowledge and experience in every facet of biomedical research, but also a vision about how his homeland could benefit.

12.06.2020 / 21:13

Coronavirus ‘reinforces inequalities and divides,’ says Sky News’ Tim Marshall

A former diplomatic editor for Sky News who is an expert on international relations, a gunpowder-scorched former journalist and writer of several critically acclaimed books, the 61-year-old Tim Marshall recently spoke to Kathimerini on a wide range of subjects.

18.05.2020 / 06:57

George Pelecanos feeling upbeat in lockdown

Award-winning Greek-American crime writer says he hopes we will come away from pandemic ‘with a greater appreciation of our existence.’

12.10.2019 / 11:28

National Historical Museum pays tribute to Greek Revolution

The National Historical Museum in Athens has launched a fascinating program of exhibitions, publications and events celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with a proclamation of revolution against Ottoman rule in the Peloponnese on March 17, 1821.