Vangelis G Prof.

Biography

Dr Vangelis Manolopoulos is a full professor at the department of Pharmacology of Democritus University of Thrace Medical School in Alexandroupolis, Greece and at the Clinical Pharmacology Unit of the Academic General Hospital of Alexandroupolis. Ηe obtained a PhD from the Medical School of Patras University in 1991. Between 1992 and 1995 he did postdoctoral research at the Milwaukee Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin. Then he moved on to the department of Physiology of the Medical School of the Katholic University in Leuven, Belgium, where he was a research scientist between 1995 and 1998. Since 1998 Dr Manolopoulos has been teaching basic and clinical pharmacology to medical students at his university and since 2001 he has developed and teaches a course in Pharmacogenetics, one of the first to be introduced to the Medical School undergraduate curriculum worldwide. 

Research Interest

His major research interests includes:  1. Clinical applications of pharmacogenetics and genomics of psychiatric, hypolipidemic, antiasthmatic, anticoagulant, and antidiabetic drugs. 2. Identification of novel genetic factors predisposing to atheromatosis, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, pediatric asthma, diabetic nephropathy, ischemic stroke.  3. Cardiovascular actions of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)  4. Analysis of cardioprotective and antineoplastic functions of natural compounds (pomegranate, asparagus officinalis)