Professional Bio
Antonis K. Hatzopoulos, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiac tissue repair after acute ischemic injury or in diabetic cardiomyopathy.
After graduating from the Department of Chemistry at Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki Greece, he completed graduate studies in Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern University. His PhD thesis focused on the evolution of chorion genes in silk moths. He did his first post-doctoral training with Dr. Peter Gruss at Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany, working on the role of the homeobox genes in brain development. He then joined the laboratory of Dr. Robert Rosenberg in the Biology Department at MIT in Boston where he did research on vascular biology. He was appointed Group Leader of the "Vascular Genetics Laboratory" in the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics at GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health (now Helmholtz Center) in Munich, Germany.
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Education
PhD - Northwestern University, 1986
Fellowship - Postdoc - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 1989
Fellowship - Research, Dept. of Biology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307