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“I had long hair for many years, but because they lost weight I had to cut it,” confesses Gikas Majorkinis.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in our country, Gikas Majorkinis enters our homes almost every day through television or radio programs, as a member of the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health for COVID-19. The Assistant Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology and scientific director of the valuable for our country National Retrovirus Reference Center of the Laboratory of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Athens is mild, moderate and to the vice minister of Civil Protection , Nikos Hardalia.
Secret of Parapolitikon and Sasa Stamati met him at the University of Athens and in a different interview, Gikas Majorkinis unfolded several moments of his personal life.
When you were little you had long hair. Why did you cut them?
“You’re just coming” (laughs). I had long hair for many years, but due to weight loss I had to cut it. It was by age, not by choice.
Do you like music? We learned that you also play the piano. What classical music composer do you like?
I studied music and piano for many years. My favorite composers are on the one hand Bach and on the other the composers of the Russian school, such as Korsakov, Balakirev, of the more traditional than westernized Russian school, such as Tchaikovsky.
You grew up in Piraeus. What team are you? Exercise?
I grew up in Piraeus, my parents were Olympians so I’m an Olympian too. I don’t do sports much. I have been training for a long time, but for the past six months due to injury and increased professional obligations I have reduced this activity. This has cost me, but I can’t do anything else.
He has received several awards for his research work. What is your dream?
My scientific dream is to be able to see if a particular retrovirus that I have been studying for ten years is still contagious to humans. It is HERV-K, which is found in the genome of all humans and we do not know if it continues to multiply as it did 2 million years ago.
What was the most difficult moment of your life?
The most difficult stage of my life was when I lost my father to lung cancer. I was 24 years old. Since he was going to medical school, it was something he couldn’t handle.
