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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.)

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