Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (IMBB-FORTH) has been awarded a Research Grant from the 2023 Human Frontiers Science Program. Mr Pavlopoulos is the Principal Investigator (PI) of an international team with co-PIs Dr. Liangqi (Frank) Xie at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in USA and Dr. Léo Guignard at the Aix-Marseille University in France. The team will receive $1.2 million in funding for three years to study the cellular and molecular basis of bilaterian symmetry.