[2] In 1978, Spandidos gave a presentation to a Dana Farber Cancer Institute seminar.

Robert Weinberg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was in the audience when Spandidos gave this talk, and later recalled that he had devised what he called "exactly the same" strategy to identify oncogenes in human tumors not long before Spandidos' talk.

[4] Spandidos was forced to end his position at the University of Toronto in Siminovitch's laboratory due to accusations of fraud.

[4] From 1978 to 1979, Spandidos was an assistant professor at the Hellenic Anticancer Institute in Athens, Greece.

From 1979 to 1989, Spandidos worked at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, where he studied the Ras oncogene.