Honors, Awards & Scholarships

Honors

2023Honorary Professor, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece
2013Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University, Sweden - see Video and Doctoral Ceremony Symbols
2012Hans Kupczyk Guest Professor, University of Ulm, Germany
2006Honorary Doctorate, University of Kalmar, Sweden
1991M.S. (Honorary), University of Pennsylvania, USA

Awards & Scholarships

2015Academy of Athens Greece, Class of Sciences Award
1983Travel Award to 5th International Congress of Immunology, Kyoto, Japan, from the American Association of Immunologists
1982-1983Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - This fellowship was declined in favor of the EMBO long-term fellowship.
1982-1983Long-term Fellowship from European Molecular Biology Organization ALTF 121-1982
1977-1978Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
1974-1975Awards from the Lawyer's Association of Patras as having ranked first among the three-year students of the Biological Department
1973-1976Scholarship from the State Scholarship Institute for progress as a student in the Department of Biology

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Address

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
401 Stellar-Chance labs
422 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6100

Contact Information

Tel: (215)-746-5765 (Office)
Tel: (215)-746-5762 (Lab Administrator)
Fax: (215)-573-8738
Email: lambris@upenn.edu

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Neither skill nor wisdom can be achieved without knowledge.

Democritus

Don’t render judgment before you hear both sides.

Hesiod

Nothing can be attained without effort.

Musonius

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Glory is not won through easy struggles.

Sophocles

All things can be achieved through industry and effort.

Menander

Nothing great can be achieved without great risk.

Herodotus

It is necessary to strive.

Euripides

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

No progress is made without exertion.

Sophocles

Even the wisest of wise men makes mistakes.

Aeschylus

The race will not wait for the tardy athlete.

Fragments of the tragic poets

One hand washes the other.

Epicharmus

Effort is said to be the father of fame.

Euripides

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

A ship is safer with three anchors than one.

Euripides

Nothing is more important than hard work.

Antiphanes

Good things are accomplished through learning and hard work.

Democritus

The beginning is more than half of the whole, and when one has begun many of the things one seeks have already become known.

Aristotle

If someone is not taught then he can conquer neither art nor wisdom.

Democritus

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Antisthenes

The good should be measured by quality not quantity.

Aesop

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Work is not shameful; it is shameful not to work.

Hesiod

No good comes of idleness.

Sophocles

Whenever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Hippocrates

Work above all brings light into our lives.

Pindar

Nature is used to hiding herself.

Heraclitus

There are two sides to every question.

Protagoras

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Epicurus

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

There is no human activity without obstacles.

Simonides

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch