Mrs Kyriaki Dede

Team Lead - Human Genetics Project and Research Management

I provide high-level administrative and organisational support to the Sanger Institute Human Genetics Programme and its Faculty, driving forward the aims and objectives of the Programme.

I joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as the Malaria Programme Administrator in 2014. Since January 2016 I am working hand in hand with the Research Manager, providing high-level administrative and organisational support to the Human Genetics Programme and its Faculty, driving forward the aims and objectives of the Programme.

I graduated from the University of Patras (Greece) with a B.Sc. in Biology. In 2008 I received the Leventis Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award and joined Prof. Fraguedakis-Tsolis and Prof. Chondropoulos laboratory to pursue an M.Sc. in Ecology, Management and Conservation of Natural Environment. During my M.Sc. I studied the micromammals of the genus Mus in two different habitats in Cyprus, using mtDNA and geometric morphometric analyses.