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deciphering the RNA editing and modification code in immunovascular health and disease
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 Heidelberg, 1 September 2021 Prof. Konstantinos Stellos has joined from 1st of September 2021 the University of Heidelberg as Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Research (Mannheim campus). |  Frankfurt/Main, 19 October 2020 Congratulations to our lab member Rawlings Achangwa for his magna cum laude MD thesis! |  Amsterdam, 31 August 2020 Prof. Konstantinos Stellos was honoured with the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award by the European Society of Cardiology Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science for his research work in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. |
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 Dallas, 8 June 2020 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou for her appointment to the Early Career Committee of the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine! |  Athens, 17-19 October 2019 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Charalampos Lazaridis for the Hellenic Cardiology Society Scholarship! |  Oxford, 26-27 September 2019 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Simon Tual-Chalot for the British Atherosclerosis Society Early Career Investigator Award! |
 Philadelphia, 16-18 November 2019 International prestigious recognition to our lab member Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou! Dr. Gatsiou received the prestigious Early Career Investigator Αward by the Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine of the American Heart Association (AHA) for her groundbreaking research work in our lab on endogenous RNA nucleotide modifications (known as “epitranscriptome”) and how these affect inflammatory diseases. |  London, 18 July 2019 Congratulations to our undergraduate student Mr. Orestis Katsoulis for being awarded for his research project thesis in our lab the Top Project Award by the Royal Society of Biology and for being accepted to do his master studies in Immunology at the Imperial College London! |  Madrid, 12-15 June 2019 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Nikos Vlachogiannis for being selected to present his research work as an oral presentation and for being awarded a travel grant at the Annual European Conference of Rheumatology EULAR 2019. |
 Manchester, 5 June 2019 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Simon Tual-Chalot for receiving the Highest Scoring Abstract Basic Science Prize awarded jointly by the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Heart Foundation at their Annual Conference 2019! |  Manchester, 3-4 June 2019 Congratulations to our lab member Dr. Simon Tual-Chalot for receiving the best oral presentation runner-up prize awarded by the British Cardiovascular Research Society and the British Atherosclerosis Society. |  Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, 24-29 March 2019 Congratulations to our lab members Dr. Aikaterini Gatsiou for being selected to present her research work as oral presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar on RNA editing as well as to Dr. Nikos Vlachogiannis and Dr. Simon Tual-Chalot for being selected to present their research work as poster at the Gordon Research Conference RNA editing 2019 “Next-Generation Epitranscriptomics in Health and Disease”. |
 Lindau, 24–29 June 2018 Congratulations to our lab member Nikos Vlachogiannis for being selected to participate at the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! |  Frankfurt/Main, 13 June 2018 Congratulations to our lab member Aikaterini Gatsiou for her summa cum laude PhD thesis and the excellent presentation of her PhD research work! |  Athens, 23 May 2018 Congratulations to our associated lab PI in Athens Kimon Stamatelopoulos for being promoted to Associate Professor of the University of Athens, Greece! |
 Athens, 21 October 2017 Congratulation to our associated lab member Giorgos Georgiopoulos for receiving the 1st Award of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology for his research work on amyloid beta in patients with NSTE-ACS! |  Brussels, 6 September 2017 Prof. Konstantinos Stellos has been honored with the ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council with 1,5 million euros over 5 years for his project “Endothelial RNA modifications in vascular homeostasis and disease” |  Athens, October 2017 Congratulations to our lab member Nikos Vlachogiannis for receiving a prestigious PhD scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation! |
 Frankfurt/Main, 7 September 2017 Congratulations to our student Victoria Panagiota for successfully defending her Dr.med. thesis and receiving a magna cum laude from the Medical School of the Goethe University Frankfurt for her outstanding research work in our lab! | Athens, August 2017 Congratulations to our associated lab member Giorgos Georgiopoulos for receiving a National Scholarships Foundation (IKY) Postdoctoral Scholarship (ranked 4th out of 77 applications) to work in our associated lab in Athens on "Clinical value of peripheral blood mononuclear cell noncoding RNAs as determinants for human atherosclerosis"! |  Mannheim, 21 April 2017 Oskar-Lapp Research Prize 2017 awarded by the German Cardiac Society (DGK). Feierliche Preisübergabe v.l.n.r. Prof. Dr. Thomas Nordt, Prof. Dr. Hugo A. Katus, Prof. Dr. Martin Borggrefe, Frau Ursula Ida Lapp, Preisträger Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Stellos, Alexander Lapp (Foto: DGK / Thomas Hauss) |
 Frankfurt/Main, 28 September 2016 Congratulations to our student Federica Francesca Lunella, who has gotten the Young Investigator Prize (Finalist) at the Joint International Meeting Perspectives in Vascular Biology, which is organized by the German Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology. |  American Heart Association (AHA), 1. July 2016 Prof. Konstantinos Stellos has been appointed as member of the Early Career Committee of the AHA Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine. |  Florence, 10 July 2016 Congratulations to our student Federica Francesca Lunella, who has gotten the Young Investigator Award (Runner-Up Prize) at the FCVB (Frontiers in Cardiovascular Biology) congress organized by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science in Florence, Italy! At the award ceremony with the President of the FCVB OC, Prof. Elisabetta Cerbai. |
 Orlando, November 2015 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2015, Award Reception of the Council for Functional Genomics and Translational Biology. With the Award Finalists S. Das, Johns Hopkins University; P. Willeit, King’s College London and N. Tucker, Harvard/MIT. |  Frankfurt/Main 1 December 2014 Appointment to Associate (Apl.) Professor of Medicine by the Dean of the Medical School of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Prof. Dr. Josef Pfeilschifter |  Chicago, November 2014 American Heart Association (AHA) 2014 Scientific Sessions ATVB Early Career Young Investigator Awardees of the AHA Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, announced during the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions which was held at the McCormick Convention Center. Scientific Sessions is the leading cardiovascular meeting for basic, translational, clinical and population science. |
 Chicago, 17 November 17 2014 American Heart Association (AHA) 2014 Scientific Sessions Elected Fellows of the American Heart Association during the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions being held at the McCormick Convention Center. Scientific Sessions is the leading cardiovascular meeting for basic, translational, clinical and population science, in the United States, with more than 18,000 cardiovascular experts from over 105 countries attending the meeting. |  Frankfurt/Main, June 2014 German Heart Foundation (DHS) Wilhelm P. Winterstein-Award 2014 |  Bad Homburg, January 2014 Else-Kröner Memorial Scholarship (200,000 EUR) awarded to Dr. Konstantinos Stellos to establish his research group on RNA modifications and cardiovascular disease. |
 Düsseldorf, October 2014 Dr. Stellos was awarded the advancement award "Inge-Edler-Forschungsstipendium" in the context of the autumn conference of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) in Düsseldorf. Zu sehen sind (v.l.n.r.): Dr. Boris Baur (Astra Zeneca), Stipendiat Priv.-Doz. Dr. Konstantinos Stellos, DGK-Präsident Prof. Dr. Christian W. Hamm. Foto: DGK/Thomas Hauss |  Mannheim, April 2014 Hans-Blömer-Young Investigator Award for Clinical Cardiovascular Research 2014 (Finalist) awarded by the German Cardiac Society |  Frankfurt/Main, December 2013 Appointment to "Privatdozent" (Assistant Professor of Medicine) of the Medical School of the Goethe University Frankfurt, by the Director of the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital of Frankfurt, Prof. Dr. Andreas M. Zeiher |
 Tübingen, November 2010 Young Investigator Award Ausgezeichnet wurde Dr. Konstantinos Stellos für seine Forschungsleistungen auf dem Gebiet der entzündlichen Herzmuskelerkrankungen. |
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