Dr. Evangelos Andreakos is a Principal Investigator (Assoc. Professor Level) at the Centre for Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA). He received his PhD in Immunology from Imperial College London at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in the UK under the supervision of Prof. Sir Marc Feldmann, who pioneered the development of biological therapies for chronic inflammatory diseases. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the team of Prof. Brian Foxwell at Imperial College London, a leading expert in immune cell signaling. His current research seeks to understand how innate immunity, the body's natural defense against exogenous and endogenous insults controls host-protective versus host-damaging inflammation. It particularly focuses on the role of innate immune disturbances in the development of respiratory diseases such as asthma and acute respiratory distress syndrome. It also investigates the involvement of innate immune pathways in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis.
Andreas V Goules is an Assistant Professor at the Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Andreas V Goules also works at the Laboratory of Immunobiology, Center for Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece. The research keywords include primary Sjӧgren's syndrome and rheumatic diseases.
Athanasios G Tzioufas is a Professor of Pathophysiology and Rheumatology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his degree in Medicine from the School of Medicine of the University of Ioannina in 1983, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 1989 and his Board of Rheumatology in 1994 (under Professor H. M. Moutsopoulos). From 2006 to 2007 he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Health in the U.S.A. Professor A.G. Tzioufas has organized numerous scientific meetings, including the 11th International Symposium of Sjogren’s Syndrome (2011), the Summer School of Immunology (2010,2012,2014 and 2016) the Joint Scientific Meeting with John Hopkins University(2010). He coordinates the joint Rheumatology Academic program of the University of Athens and he is on the Steering Committee of the intradepartmental educational program in Rheumatology. He is a member of numerous scientific committees in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the Editorial Board of six peer-reviewed Scientific Journals and a reviewer in another thirty scientific journals. For the last 3 years, he has been the President of “Sjogren’s Syndrome” of the American College of Rheumatology.