The Stellos Lab
RNA modifications - vascular biology - immunology - preventive cardiology
supported by the European Research Council (ERC)
Honors and Awards to Prof. K. Stellos
2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Outstanding Achievement Award
2020 Elected nucleus member of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology
2020 Elected Vice-Chair of the American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Professional/Public Education & Publications Committee
2020 Appointed Academic Lead for Cardiology, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship and Academic Foundation Programme, Health Education North East (HENE)
2019 Appointed Lead of the Vascular Biology and Medicine Theme, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
2019 Elected Senate professorial member of the Newcastle University, UK
2018 Elected member of the American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Professional/Public Education & Publications Committee
2018 Editorial Board member of the journal Cardiovascular Research
2017 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
2017 Assistant Editor at the AHA journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine (Circ Cardiovasc Genet)
2017 German Cardiac Society (DGK) Oskar-Lapp Research Prize 2017
2016 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
2015 American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Award Winner, Council on Functional Genomics
and Translational Biology (FGTB)
2014 Else-Kröner Memorial Fellowship awarded by the the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation
2014 American Heart Association (AHA) Early Career Investigator Award Finalist, Council on Arteriosclerosis,
Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB)
2014 German Cardiac Society (DGK) Inge-Edler Research Scholarship
2014 Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA)
2014 German Heart Foundation (DHS) Wilhelm P. Winterstein-Award 2014
2014 German Cardiac Society (DGK) Hans Blömer-Young Investigator Award for Clinical Cardiology Finalist
2012 Research Scholarship awarded by the the German Cardiac Society (DGK)
2010 Ewald und Karin Hochbaum Foundation Award awarded by the Medical Faculty of the University of
Tübingen, Germany
2010 European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science First Contact Initiative
Grant
2008 German-Romanian Academy of Sciences & German Society of Internal Medicine Paul-Schölmerich
Award for Internal Medicine
2008 German Cardiac Society (DGK) Hans Blömer-Young Investigator Award for Clinical Cardiology Finalist
2008 Carl-Liebermeister-Award of the Medical Faculty and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research
of the University of Tübingen
Honors and Awards to Lab Members
2020 Aikaterini Gatsiou: elected member of the American Heart Association Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Committee
2019 Simon Tual-Chalot: British Atherosclerosis Society Early Career Investigator Award finalist
2019 Aikaterini Gatsiou: American Heart Association (AHA) Early Career Investigator Αward finalist by the Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine
2019 Orestis Katsoulis (undergrad student): Top Project Award by the Royal Society of Biology, UK
2019 Simon Tual-Chalot: British Cardiovascular Society and British Heart Foundation Annual Conference 2019 Highest Scoring Abstract Basic Science, Manchester, UK
2019 Simon Tual-Chalot: British Cardiovascular Research Society and British Atherosclerosis Society Best Oral Abstract Prize Runner-Up, Manchester, UK
2019 Nikolaos Vlachogiannis: travel grant and oral abstract presentation at the Annual European Conference of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019), Madrid, Spain
2019 Gayathri Rajesh Nair (undergrad student): Newcastle University Research Scholarship
2019 Aikaterini Gatsiou: invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference Seminar on Next-Generation Epitranscriptomics in Health and Disease 2019, Tuscany, Italy
2019 Georgios Georgiopoulos: European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) research grant for a fellowship on CMR at St Thomas' Hospital London, London, UK
2018 Nikolaos Vlachogiannis: selected participant of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 24–29 June 2018
2018 Aikaterini Gatsiou: summa cum laude for her (written) PhD thesis at the Goethe University Frankfurt
2018 Kimon Stamatelopoulos: promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2018 Aikaterini Gatsiou: invited talk at the German Cardiac Society annual congress 2018
2017 Georgios Georgiopoulos: postdoctoral scholarship awarded by the National Scholarships Foundation (IKY) of Greece
2017 Nikolaos Vlachogiannis: PhD scholarship awarded by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
2017 Georgios Georgiopoulos: Hellenic Society of Cardiology Award
2017 Aikaterini Gatsiou: invited talk at the German Cardiac Society annual congress 2017
2017 Marco Sachse: travel scholarship by the Faculty of Medicine at the Goethe University
Frankfurt to present his MD thesis at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2017
2016 Federica Lunella: European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Basic Cardiovascular
Science Young Investigator Award (runner-up prize)
2016 Federica Lunella: German Society of Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Young
Investigator Award 2016 (finalist)
2016 Marco Sachse: travel scholarship by the Faculty of Medicine at the Goethe University
Frankfurt to present his MD thesis at the International Vascular Biology Meeting 2016, Boston, USA
2016 Rawlings Achangwa: Scholarship by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education
2016 Aikaterini Gatsiou: the German Cardiac Society selected her abstract for its quality as top
abstract of the congress
2016 Marco Sachse: one-year research scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG)-
funded SFB834 for his MD thesis
2015 Aikaterini Gatsiou: German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
mobility programme grantee
2015 Rawlings Achangwa: one-year research scholarship by the German Research Foundation
(DFG)-funded SFB834 for his MD thesis
2015 Aikaterini Gatsiou: the American Heart Association ATVB Sessions selected her abstract for
its quality as top abstract of the congress
2014 Victoria Panagiota: American Heart Association ATVB Congress Travel Award
2013 Aikaterini Gatsiou: ERASMUS scholarship for her master thesis
2011 Bianca Rusescu, (summer intern, medical student): 1st Prize at the Medicalis international congress for
medical students and young health professionals
Completed Doctoral Dissertations of Stellos Lab students
2020 Nikolaos Vlachogiannis (PhD)
2020 Francesca Bonini (PhD)
2020 Rawlings Achangwa (Dr. med.)
2018 Aikaterini Gatsiou (PhD)
2017 Victoria Panagiota (Dr. med.)
2013 Dennis Schlak (Dr. med.)
2013 Florian Franz Pfaff (Dr. med.)
2013 Viktoria Mozes (Dr. med.)
2012 Hossam Alkhalil (Dr. med.)
2012 Annegret Perk (Dr. vet. med.)
2012 Juliane Grimm (Dr. med.)
2012 Angela Maria Rahmann (Dr. med.)
2011 Stephan Matthias Gnerlich (Dr. med.)
2011 Madlen Eva Ruf (Dr. med.)
2010 Nina Henkelman (Dr. med.)
2010 Annika Schad (Dr. med.)
2010 Rezo Jorbenadze (Dr. med.)