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Professor Andre Glinos, the son of Dimitris Glinos and Anna Chroni, was born in Athens, Greece in 1918. He studied medicine at the Athens University, and between 1942 and 1945 he worked as registrar at the Evangelismos Hospital. In 1945 he was granted a scholarship from the French Government, and left for Paris for post-graduate studies in biology. One year later he moved to Harvard, and three years later to John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland as a research associate in the famous School of Medicine.

In 1953 Andre Glinos became Director of the Dept. of Developmental Physiology of the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC. From 1963 to 1976 he directed the Dept. of Molecular Physiology of the same Institute. He was also research professor with the University of Maryland between 1964 and 1974. Andre Glinos taught Physiology as a visiting professor at the Universities of Shiraz, Iran and Madras, India. In 1977 he was offered a chair from the George Washington University (Washington, DC), but he declined, and moved to Athens, Greece, in order to reorganize the Papanikolaou Research Center of the Greek Anti-Cancer Institute. In 1983 he resigned from his position as Director of the Center, in order to prepare the establishment of the Glinos Foundation. Professor Glinos died in Athens in November 1990, at the Evangelismos Hospital, the very same place where he had started his scientific career in 1942, a few months after the Glinos Foundation had been established.

As a medical doctor and a trained biologist, Professor Glinos was a pioneer of the scientific research in the field of cancer, especially of the mechanisms of liver regeneration. His work as a scientist was of great esteem and even now, after all these years, it is regularly cited by experts as important in the long line of the research on the human cell (cf. H.M. Good: The Medicaments of Cellular Therapy, 2006; A.V. Lebouton: Molecular and Cell Biology of the Liver, 1993).

Professor Glinos was member of many scientific societies in the US and abroad. From December 1959 he was married to Loni Wallsütsky.

Professor Harry V. Gelboin of the Νational Institute of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) wrote that the scientific work of Andre Glinos on the molecular and cell biological aspects of liver regeneration was path-breaking, and preceded all current research on molecular and cellular biology.