Dr Dimitrios Mavroudis is Professor of Medical Oncology in the Medical School of the University of Crete and head of the Department of Medical Oncology in the University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is also the director of the Laboratory of Translational Oncology at the Medical School of the University of Crete.

He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens and trained in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology and Hematology at Hines VA hospital and Loyola University Hospital in Chicago and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

His main clinical interest is in breast cancer and his research focuses in the development of liquid biopsy as a tool of studying and understanding the biology of disease and predicting clinical outcome. This includes the analysis of circulating tumor cells and cell free DNA in the blood of cancer patients.

He has authored and co-authored more than 250 scientific papers published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

He has served as the representative of Greek medical oncologists at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). He is also a member of the initial steering committee for the organization of the National Institute of Cancer in Greece.