BRFAA - Biomedical Research Foundation Academy Of Athens
Biomedical Research Foundation Academy Of AthensAcademy Of Athens

Research

Clinical and translational research interests:

  • Heart failure (pathophysiology, genetic/molecular mechanisms)
  • Congenital heart disease (autonomic nervous system dysfunction, immune activation, genetic mechanism)
  • Vascular function, physiology properties of the aorta

Biomedical engineering research interests:

  • Heart rate variability
  • Baroreflex sensitivity
  • Heart rate turbulence
  • Medical image processing

Awarded Grants / Ongoing Research / Collaborations

Principal Investigator

  1. General Secretariat of Research and Technology Grant (GSRT): “Neurohormonal activation and aortic dysfunction in congenital heart disease”. Collaboration with Agia Sophia Childrens’ General Hospital and Hippokratio University Hospital. (2005).
  2. Hellenic Society of Cardiology Research Grant: “The role of desmin in the heart’s conduction system’. Collaboration with the Department of Cellular Biology. (2005 and 2006)

 

Co-investigator:

  1. National Coordinator for the project “European Cardiac Rehabilitation Database and Registry” organised by the European Society of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation (2010-2011).
  2. GSRT Grant (2009): “The role of galectin in the desmin deficiency cardiomyopathy”. Collaboration with the Department of Cellular Biology. (PI: Dr. S. Psaras)
  3. GSRT Grant (2006): "Strategic Improvement of the quality and credibility of Telecardiology". Collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology (PI: Dr. S. Kossida).
  4. GSRT Grant (2006): “Development of efficient cardioprotective vectors for therapy of cardiomyopathies”. Collaboration with the Department of Cellular Biology. (PI: Prof. Y. Capetanaki)
  5. GSRT Grant (2005): “The role of the haemodynamic parameters on the histomorphologic disturbances of the arteriovenus shunts”. Collaboration with the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Biomedical Technology of the National Technical University of Athens (PI: Prof. G. Tsagaris)
  6. Collaboration with the Laboratory of Biomedical Simulation and Imaging of the National Technical University of Athens(PI: Prof. K. Nikita): “Carotid Artery Motion Estimation From Sequences of B-Mode Ultrasound Images”
  7. Collaboration with the Department of Computer Science of the Ioannina University: “Prediction and approximation methods of heart rate variability analysis”.
  8. Collaboration with the Working Group on Heart Failure of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology:”Registry of heart failure patients in Greece”
  9. Collaboration with the 1st Social Security Hospital of Athens: ‘Registry of hypertensive patients undergoing coronary angiography”