
Prof. Antigoni Triantafyllopoulou, MD
Programme Area 1, PA 1 – Cell and Tissue Rheumatology
Group leader: Macrophage biology and innate cellular networks in chronic inflammatory diseases
Liaison working group with Charité - Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Year of Birth: 1976
Nationality: Greek
Scientific Backround
Since 2020
Professor (W2) and Rheumatologist, Dept of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité & German Rheumatism Research Center (DRFZ), A Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
2017 – 2020
Group Leader and Rheumatologist, Innate Immunity in Rheumatic diseases, Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité & German Rheumatism Research Center (DRFZ), A Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany
2013 – 2017
Junior Group Leader and Rheumatologist, Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Freiburg University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
2009 – 2013
Project Leader, Centre of Chronic Immunodeficiency, Freiburg University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
2005 – 2009
Rheumatology Fellow, Academic/Research Track, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
2002 – 2005
Resident, Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA
1994 – 2001
Medical Diploma, National University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
1999 – 2002
Ph.D., Awarded 20.01.2011, Supervisor: Prof. Haralampos Moutsopoulos, Medicine, National University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
Since 2021
Faculty, MD/PhD Graduate Program “Re-Thinking Health” (Else-Kröner Fresius Foundation, EKFS), Germany
2022
Organizing committee, Oxford-Berlin School of Molecular Basis of Inflammatory Diseases
Since 2020
Faculty, “Center of Infection Biology and Immunity” (ZIBI) Graduate School, Charité, Germany
Since 2019
Faculty, Leibniz Graduate School on Chronic Inflammation, German Rheumatism Research Center (DRFZ), Germany
Teaching: lectures, and seminars in the context of the medical curriculum “Human Medicine” (MSM 2.0) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Biology M.Sc. curriculum of the Free University, and the graduate programs Re-Thinking Health and Center of Infection Biology and Immunity (ZIBI).
Reviewing activities (selected): DFG, UK Research and Innovation (MRC), Human Frontier Science Program, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, DKFZ – Israeli Ministry of Science (MOST) Program; Cell reports, Eur J Immunol, J Immunol; Editorial Board, Cell Stress.
DGRh, Ärztekammer Berlin
2018
ERC Starting Grant “DNA Damage Response-instructed Macrophage Differentiation in Granulomatous Diseases” (DDRMac)
2011
Marie Curie International Re-integration Grant, European Commission
2007 – 2010
Physician Scientist Fellowship, SLE Lupus Foundation, New York
2005
Outstanding House Officer in Internal Medicine Award, Montefiore Medical Centre, Bronx, NY, USA
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