Evangelos Andreakos

Biography

Dr Evangelos Andreakos received his PhD in Immunology from Imperial College London under the supervision of Marc Feldmann. He worked on the role of the NF-B pathway in the regulation of immune responses during chronic inflammation and identified critical rate-limiting steps controlling macrophage and dendritic cell function (AJRCCM 2002; Blood 2003; Arthritis Rheum 2004: PNAS 2004). In 2005, Dr Andreakos became an Investigator at the Centre for Immunology and Transplantation of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. In 2006 he took up a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor (Investigator Level C’) and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. His studies are currently focusing on the role of innate immunity in the instruction of adaptive responses in the airways and the development and persistence of inflammation.

Research Interest

He is interested in the development of innovative technologies with translational potential for the effective delivery of oligonucleotides or small molecules to immune cells and inflammatory sites (Arthritis Rheum 2009). This work offers the prospect of identifying critical rate-limiting steps involved in inflammatory disease pathogenesis and developing innovative new strategies for therapeutic intervention.