Despina Sanoudou

Despina Sanoudou is Full Professor in Pharmacogenomics and Cardiovascular Biology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of the Clinical Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Unit at the 4th Department of Internal Medicine, and collaborating Faculty at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK, and worked at the Harvard Medical School where she joined the Faculty as Instructor in 2003. She is Board Certified in Laboratory Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics and has worked at genetic diagnostic laboratories of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston. She has served as Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, Visiting Scholar at the Boston University Department of Medicine, and Co-ordinator of the International Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Program of the Sir Magdi Yacoub Research Network. Her research work focuses on deciphering pathogenetic mechanisms in cardiovascular disease and the development of precision medicine therapeutic approaches. She has >160 publications in scientific journals and books, and >500 oral and written presentations at international meetings. She has served as Expert Advisor to the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, as Vice President of the Greek National Committee for the Reimbursement Regulations of Health Technology Products and Services (EOPPY), and member of the Medicines Approval Committee of the Greek National Medicines Organization (EOF). She serves on the evaluation committees of >20 international and national funding organizations, in the editorial boards and reviewer teams of >50 international scientific journals. She co-ordinates multiple under- and post-graduate educational programs, and has given lectures to thousands of students internationally. Professor Sanoudou has received multiple awards for her contribution to science and education including the L’Oreal-UNESCO award for Women in Science.