Professor Alexandros Tselepis
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None declared.Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry-Clinical Chemistry,
Director of the Atherothrombosis Research Centre of the University of Ioannina, Greece
Alexandros D. Tselepis is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry-Clinical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department, University of Ioannina, Greece.
Professor Tselepis was born in Heraklion Crete in 1954. He graduated in Pharmacy from the University of Thessaloniki and in Medicine from the University of Ioannina. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina. His research work continued with a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fogarty, NIH) in the Pathology Department, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
From 1994 to 1999 he took a sabbatical leave (3 months per year) and conducted research work on lipoproteins and atherosclerosis as invited researcher in INSERM U321 Paris, France.
Professor Tselepis is currently Director of the Atherothrombosis Research Centre (http://atherothrombosis.lab.uoi.gr) and President of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Medical Chemistry” of the University of Ioannina.
Prof Tselepis has been President of:
i. the Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society,
ii. the European and Mediterranean League against Thrombotic Diseases (EMLTD) and
iii. the Institute for the Study and Education on Thrombosis and Antithrombotic Therapy (ISETAT).
He has been Member of the Executive Committees of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) and the Hellenic Cardiovasular Research Society and currently he is a Member of the Educational Committee of EAS.
His main research interests concern the role of lipoproteins, including Lp(a), as well as their modified forms in the inflammatory mechanisms involved in the development and progression of atherosclerotic plaque as well as in its thrombotic complications. Currently, he studies the effects of lipoproteins and their modified forms in the generation of the neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) as well as in their interaction with cells involved in atherosclerotic plaque development and rupture.
Professor Tselepis has supervised 29 PhDs, 37 MSc and 10 postdocs and he has over 35 years experience in managing international and national research projects. Currently, Prof Tselepis has 280 publications in peer reviewed journals and more than 18,000 citations, whereas his h-index is 62, according to Scopus.
