2019 Allan Award Introduction: Stylianos Antonarakis

It is a great pleasure to introduce Stylianos Antonarakis, the recipient of the 2019 William Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics. I first heard of Stelios, as he is called, 40 years ago in 1979 when I received a letter from a young Greek physician requesting a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric genetics at Johns Hopkins. Stelios was born and raised in Athens, and by 1979 he had completed medical school in Athens with high...