Plato A Magriotis

University of Patras, Greece

Title: Associate Professor

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Biography

Since 2006, Plato A. Magriotis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Patras in Greece and a Research Affiliate with the Department of Chemistry at New York University. Magriotis received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology with Professor Francis Johnson at Stony Brook University in 1983 and did Postdoctoral work at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate Professor E. J. Corey. His career started at West Virginia University and continued at Merck & Co. as well as New York University in the U.S., prior to his return to Greece. Magriotis’ research program focuses on the development of new methodology for the synthesis of relevant pharmacophores applied in drug discovery.

Research Interest

• Synthesis of biologically and pharmacologically relevant molecules such ?-lactams, and piperazines. 
• Total Synthesis of antitumor marine natural product Ecteinascidin-743 marketed as Yondelis or Trabectidin, a drug against soft tissue sarcoma. 
• New Synthetic Methodology Design including novel routes to ?-lactams, piperazines and aziridines.