Dr. Apazidis attended Harvard University as an undergraduate. While studying there, he majored in biological sciences and his honor’s thesis was on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease. While at Harvard he was cross enrolled at MIT where he studied military science was a member of the Army’s Paul Revere Battalion. He graduated from both institutions simultaneously and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army, in which he served after college