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Cyprus born scientist Eleftherios Diamandis was recently awarded for his contribution to medical science. But what kind of person makes a good researcher asks THEO PANAYIDES
I love my job, but it’s not like I’m curing cancer. That holds true, no matter what you do for a living – unless you’re Dr Eleftherios Diamandis, because he really is curing cancer. Not in a dramatic way, and in fact he explicitly warns me against doing what the media always do – pumping up scientific advances, so it sounds like a cure is just around the corner – but he’s still at the cutting edge. His research lab at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto (he’s also a Professor and Head of Department at the University of Toronto) has worked at the problem for 20 years, greatly helped by the mapping of the human genome in the past decade.
But we’re getting slightly ahead of ourselves. Even before the work there’s Eleftherios himself, a 58-year-old with wavy silver hair and calm, canny eyes in a rather narrow face; he was in Cyprus recently to accept the so-called Nemitsas Prize (awarded by the Takis and Louki Nemitsas Foundation) for his contribution to medical science – yet he doesn’t really fit the stereotype of research scientist. When we think of such people, beavering away over test-tubes and Petri dishes, we tend to think of words like ‘absent-minded’ and ‘in his own world’. If I had to describe Eleftherios in a single word, however, that word might be ‘shrewd’. And if I had to add a second word, it might be ‘competitive’ – a word he himself uses more than once in our conversation.
“A lot of people think that researchers are some kind of monks,” he tells me. “But in fact to be a scientist is actually a profession. Like you are a newspaper reporter, I am a trained professional scientist. It’s my job. Though it starts a bit earlier, probably – around 7am – and we usually work longer hours”. Significantly, the passion for research came before the passion for medicine. He studied Chemistry at the University of Athens, then did a PhD – and it was only there, working with biological samples, that he became “fascinated with medicine” and went on to medical school. He might just as easily have ended up a physicist, or an industrial chemist; what drove him wasn’t a particular branch of research, but the concept of research itself. “I always wanted to investigate things. It’s fun, I found it fun.” Medical school was hard, he adds, since he was already married with children – but also “an amazing investment, because having my medical degree gave me a chance to get into hospitals. My salary is much higher than an average PhD scientist as well, which is an extra bonus”. Like I said, a shrewd man.
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