HBA-USA members that conduct research on "Animal Science"


Nikoletta Charizopoulou
NIH/NIDCD, Postdoctoral visiting Fellow
Hearing Reseach, Neuroscience, Molecular Genetics, Animal Science
ncharizopoulou@yahoo.com

Konstantinos E. Hatzistergos
University of Miami, Post-doctoral fellow
Cardiovascular Disease, Immunology, Biological Chemistry, Animal Science
xatzistergos@hotmail.com

Stephanos Pavlides
Thomas Jefferson University, PhD candidate
Animal Science, Metabolic Diseases, Pulmonary Diseases, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Muscle research, Pharmacology
spavlidescy@gmail.com



- Cancer

Kyriakos D. Economides
Sanofi-Aventis, Senior Research Investigator
I am primarily interested in generating mouse models for hematological malignancies
kyriakos.economides@sanofi-aventis.com



- Drug delivery

Gesthimani "Mania" Samiotaki
Columbia University, PhD Student
Non-invasive, localized delivery of drugs and potential therapeutic agents using focused ultrasound
gs2496@columbia.edu



- Heart dysfunction

Maria Irene Kontaridis
Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Understanding the signaling pathways that mediate cardiac developmental processes may reveal important clues into the cellular and molecular pathogenesis of heart
disease. Specifically, we want to understand how protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) relate to cardiac development and disease. Our lab's research efforts focus on
developmental biology, in vivo analysis of in mouse systems, including disease models, and cardiac biology and stem cell research using primary cultures. Currently,
we are studying mouse models in which we can assess the molecular pathogenesis of the cardiac defects associated with Noonan (NS) and LEOPARD (LS) Syndromes,
pediatric disorders both attributed primarily to mutations in Shp2, the SH2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase
mkontari@bidmc.harvard.edu

- Kidney disease

Pinelopi Kapitsinou
Vanderbilt University, Clinical Fellow
Contribution of hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) in chronic kidney disease progression,and hypoxic regulation of erythropiesis
Pinelopi.kapitsinou@vanderbilt.edu
Hellenic Bioscientific Association in the USA
HBA-USA