{"id":687,"date":"2025-11-24T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/?page_id=687"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:36:16","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"687\" class=\"elementor elementor-687\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14335b7 ts-col-stretched-none ts-bg-color-over-image elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14335b7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9de8ebb ts-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"9de8ebb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f63a99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1f63a99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>The National Retrovirus Reference Center (N.R.R.C.)<\/strong> was founded in 1989 and is located at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.<\/p><p>With <strong>more than 35 years of continuous operation<\/strong>, it is a laboratory specializing in the clinical diagnosis of viruses and has successfully dealt with many of the emergency health needs that arose in Greece (AIDS pandemic, influenza epidemics, Olympic Games, SARS CoV-2 pandemic).<\/p><p>As a Reference Laboratory, it accepts patient samples from health care units, throughout Greece, providing high quality services in the monitoring of patients with HIV infection. The N.R.R.C. uses accredited methods, which are carried out by experienced and highly qualified personnel.<\/p><p>In addition, the N.R.R.C. has the facilities and the know-how to perform a multitude of molecular tests for a wide range of pathogens.<\/p><p>Its research contribution has led to numerous publications in reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals worldwide.<\/p><p>According to Ministerial Decision D1a\/G.P.ec. 32918\/2025 \u2013 Government Gazette B 4155\/30.07.2025, the <strong>N.R.R.C. is a recognized Reference Centre for HIV in Greece<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Since 2023, the <strong>N.R.R.C.<\/strong> <strong>has been accredited by ESYD (Hellenic Accreditation System)<\/strong> in accordance with the International Standard ISO 15189.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Certificate-of-Accreditation.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accreditation Certificate<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scope-of-Accreditation.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scope of Accreditation<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Retrovirus Reference Center (N.R.R.C.) was founded in 1989 and is located at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. With more than 35 years of continuous operation, it is a laboratory specializing in the clinical diagnosis of viruses and has successfully dealt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/en\/history\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span>&#8220;>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-687","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/687\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehems.med.uoa.gr\/ekar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}