© MATT KALINOWSKI
Many of the friends Filippos Porichis grew up with on the small Greek island of Limnos followed tradition and spent their free time fishing. But his dream was to become a physician. Porichis attended the University of Portsmouth in England to study biomedicine, where immunology pulled him in and never let him go. “I was more interested in trying to understand why diseases are happening and how the immune system fails...than trying to apply clinical medicine.”
He stayed at Portsmouth for a master’s degree before returning to Greece to earn a PhD from the University of Crete and the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. There, Porichis focused on HIV pathogenesis—in particular, how the virus infects macrophages, which go on to regulate T-cell function.
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