Olympia Apokotou

Olympia Apokotou is a Doctoral Student at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, focusing on neuron-glia interactions in Parkinson's disease. Previous experience includes roles as a Staff Scientist, where work involved maintaining patient-derived hiPSCs, generating induced neurons, and creating neuron/glia co-cultures and 3D midbrain-like organoids. As a Master's Student, research concentrated on synaptic connectivity and proteostasis in the A53T transgenic mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Olympia also served as a Research Intern at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, studying transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease, and as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, investigating NMDAR signaling. Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy in Cellular Neurobiology (currently pursuing), a Master of Science in Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.