Vasilis has worked at and consulted for a number of pharmaceutical and biotech companies globally. Due to his innovation he has been the founder and director of seven biotech companies since 2000, including Adistem, Paspa Pharmaceuticals, Black Arrow Biotech and Nereen Healthcare. In early 2006, he founded Adistem, Ltd in Hong Kong. After finishing his doctorate in pharmacology/endocrinology in 1993 at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research at the University of Melbourne, he completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Pfizer Central Research, Pfizer Inc., in Groton, Connecticut. During this time he was given two scholarships from the Australian Federal Government, and the National Health and Medical research Council of Australia. Dr. Paspaliaris has published over 20 papers, holds over 5 patents and given lectures in a variety of medical fields, mostly in stem cell medicine. He is currently a Faculty Member for the Masters degree program in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Democritus University Medical School and the University of Crete in Greece. He is a member of the World Society of Interdisciplinary Anti-aging Medicine, the Australian Military Medicine Association and Latin American Stem Cell Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Australian Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Philippine Society of Stem Cell Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). He is currently also completing his MBA at the Australian Institute of Business.